Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1868
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
O lovely night thou bringest rest
To many a sad and toilworn breast
O’er many an eye long used to weep
Thou our’st the balm of gentle sleep
I am not sad nor weep I now
And yet I love thy sable brow
I rest beneath thy starry dome
And dream of home, and dream of home.
[Verse 2]
Tho’ rolling waves divide me now
From scenes I lov’d long long ago
I hear once more sweet voices ring
With those dear songs I used to sing
In fancy’s eye again I trace
Each dearly lov’d familiar face
Be ever thus while doom’d to roam
My dream of home, my dream of home.
Recommended Citation
Moore, Thomas and Chandler, W. E., "O, Lovely Night" (1868). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1137.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1137
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Comments
O, Lovely Night
Words by Thomas Moore
Music by W. E. Chandler
Boston: G. D. Russell & Company (1868)
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