Meeting at Night

by Robert Browning (1845) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A whole dark voyage by sea and shore, all of it worth the two hearts beating against each other at the end.

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,
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Themes: long-distance · love