Notes on the poem:"Meeting at Night"

The poet sails across a sea, reaches a cove, crosses a beach, then three fields. At last, he reaches a farm house and sees the woman he loves.
Browning uses the senses of sight, smell, sound and touch to help convey his passion and excitement as he travels by boat during the night to secretly see his beloved. If this poem is indeed about Elizabeth Barrett, which historians assume, the mention of fear could be hinting at the fact that Elizabeth's father, who disliked Robert Browning, could find out about this secretive meeting. The poem conveys their stealthy secrecy through details such as: the poem is set at night, the speaker travels alone, he taps at her window pane and she quietly speaks to him.