ABSTRACT
First publ. B & P vii (DR & L), 6 Nov. 1845; repr. 1849 (with the two sections as separate poems, Meeting at Night and Parting at Morning), and then, always together, 1863 (when they were placed in Lyrics: see Appendix A, p. 464), 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is 1845. EBB. first saw the poem in proof, and thought it ‘beautiful’ (29 Oct. 1845, LK 252). The date of composition is unknown. The stanza-form of Morning is unique in B. The speaker in both poems is the man, as B. explained (see Morning 3–4n.).
