Robert Browning


Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

The gray 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,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three field to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joy and fears,
Then the two hearts beating each to each!

Parting at Morning
Robert Browning

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim;
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.



Let evening come
Jane Kenyon

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinck in the barn , moving
up the bales as the sun moves down

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let the dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in the long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den .
Let the wind die down . Let the shed
Go black inside . Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to the air in the lung
Let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
Comfortless, so let evening come.


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