„Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.“

„Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.“

—  William Blake, A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s

„Good rain is coming to our delight.
Its early-spring timing is perfectly right.
With wind it drifts in all through the night.
Silently it's drenching everything in sight.“

—  Du Fu Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712 - 770

"Welcome Rain in a Spring Night" (《春夜喜雨》), as translated by Ying Sun http://www.musicated.com/syh/tangpoems.htm (2008)
Original: (zh_Hant) 好雨知時節，當春乃發生。
隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。

„The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,
A night seems termless hell.“

—  James Thomson (B.V.) Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834 - 1882

Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)

„Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.“

—  William Shakespeare, livre Roméo et Juliette

Variante: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

„The jests that lit our hours by night
And made them gay,
Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul
And fouled its play.“

—  Djuna Barnes American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892 - 1982

To a Cabaret Dancer
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)
Contexte: p>We watched her come with subtle fire
And learned feet,
Stumbling among the lustful drunk
Yet somehow sweet. We saw the crimson leave her cheeks
Flame in her eyes;
For when a woman lives in awful haste
A woman dies. The jests that lit our hours by night
And made them gay,
Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul
And fouled its play.</p

„To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!“

—  Walter Scott, Marmion

L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)

„A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.“

—  Ray Bradbury, livre Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

„How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony“

—  William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

„But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight —
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!“

—  Clement Clarke Moore American biblical scholar 1779 - 1863

A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823).

„Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.“

—  Walter Scott Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771 - 1832

Canto I, stanza 31.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

„What matters most in life is good health and a good night's sleep.“

—  Waheeda Rehman Indian actress 1938

Quote

„Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.“

—  William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

„If we can stand up
When all else falls down,
We'll last through the winter.
We'll last through the storms.
We'll last through the north winds
That bring down the ice and snow.
We'll last through the long nights
Till the green field's growing again.
Growing again.“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)

„Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822

Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)

„I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822

The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1

„The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.“

—  Margaret George American writer 1943

Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

„So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

St. 1.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)

„Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.“

—  Hans Christian Andersen Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet 1805 - 1875

Ole-Lukøie
Fairy Tales (1835)

„I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.“

—  Anne Brontë British novelist and poet 1820 - 1849

Source: Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters