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MEETING AT NIGHT by ROBERT BROWNING

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE GRAY SEA AND THE LONG BLACK LAND
Last Line: THAN THE TWO HEARTS, BEATING EACH TO EACH.
Subject(s): INNOCENCE; LOVE; NIGHT; SEA; SEASHORE; BEDTIME; OCEAN; BEACH; COAST; SHORE;
THE gray sea, and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startling little waves, that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed in 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 its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts, beating each to each.


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