Meeting at Night
Poem written by Robert Browning / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Meeting at Night" is a Victorian English love poem by Robert Browning. The original poem appeared in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) in which "Night" and "Morning" were two sections. In 1849, the poet separated them into the two poems "Meeting at Night" and "Parting at Morning". In the poem, the speaker is in urgency to meet his beloved and for this he has to travel through the sea at night to reach the beach where his lover is waiting.
"Meeting at Night" | |
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by Robert Browning | |
Written | 1845 (1845) |
First published in | Dramatic Romances and Lyrics |
Language | English |
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Meeting at Night at Wikisource |
The poem (like others of the 1845 collection) was written during the courtship period of Browning with his future wife Elizabeth Barrett. Kennedy and Hair describe the poem as the "most sensual poem" he had written up to that time.[1]