4/4/10

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning


The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low:
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!


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Robert Browning's Meeting at Night is, without a doubt, one of my favorite love poems, and it is an honor to be able to feature it here, on Daily Love.