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Title: Meeting At Night -- Parting At Morning Author: Robert Browning [More Titles by Browning] MEETING AT NIGHT The gray sea and the long black land; Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
PARTING AT MORNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
These poems were published originally simply as "Night" and "Morning." The second of these love lyrics is somewhat difficult to interpret. If the man is speaking, the "him" in line 3 must refer to the sun. In any case, after the isolation with the woman he loved as described in the first poem, there comes with the morning a sense of the world of action to which the man must return. The two poems are fully discussed in _Poet-Lore_, Volume VII, April, May, June-July. The poems are noteworthy for the fusion of human emotion and natural scenery and for the startlingly specific phrasing of the first quatrain. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |