Poem of the Day » robert-browning http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Meeting at Night – Robert Browning http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/meeting-at-night-robert-browning/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/meeting-at-night-robert-browning/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:12:28 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/01/23/meeting-at-night-robert-browning/ I.
The grey 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.

II.
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, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

- Robert Browning

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