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"Come, Gentle Night!" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901.
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It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt.
The song was written at the same time as Elgar's Cockaigne, and published in 1901 by Boosey & Co. in London and New York.
In his book on Elgar, Thomas Dunhill criticised this and others of his songs, finding it "...almost unbelievable that a composer of such power and distinction should have been willing to attach his name to productions like After, The Pipes of Pan, Come, Gentle Night! and Pleading". Dunhill considered some "...scarcely distinguishable from pot-boilers turned out by baser English composers in the days of ballad concerts."