'Meet' in Poetry

Continuing our associative links, (where will this all end up?) we now go from "meetup" to the use of 'meet' in poetry. Let’s take a look at some memorable poems that use 'meet'.

From "As I Walked Out One Evening" by W.H. Auden
'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

From "I Cannot Live With You" by Emily Dickinson
So We must meet apart –
You there – I – here –
With just the Door ajar

From "Personals" by C. D. Wright’s
If this were Tennessee and across that river, Arkansas,
I'd meet you in West Memphis tonight. We could
have a big time.

From "The Two" by Philip Levine
When he gets off work at Packard, they meet
outside a diner on Grand Boulevard. He's tired,
a bit depressed, and smelling the exhaustion
on his own breath, he kisses her carefully
on her left cheek.
. . .
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there were no
second acts in America, but he knew neither
this man nor this woman and no one else
like them

From "When A Woman Loves A Man" by David Lehman
When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the
airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that
she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.
. . .
When a man loves a woman, he watches her sleep, thinking:
as midnight to the moon is sleep to the beloved.