Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VII. Love’s Power | | Meeting at Night | | Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
| | | 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, | 5 |
| And quench its speed in the slushy sand. | |
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| 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, | 10 |
| And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, | |
| Than the two hearts, beating each to each. | | | | |
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