"Last Meeting" is a 1957 poem by Australian author Gwen Harwood.
It was first published in Australian Poetry 1957 edited by Hal Porter, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's collections and other poetry anthologies.
The poem describes the last meeting between two lovers, one day at "the littoral zone of day and night".
In The Guardian, Carol Rumens was taken by the poem's "emotional power". She went on: "Arousing emotion is a somewhat unfashionable poetic skill, but there's no good reason otherwise for writers to bother with the drama-heightening apparatus of lines, stanzas, metaphors. In the way Harwood pushes romanticism and realism against each other, she reminds me of the great Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Neither writer is deluded by intensity of feeling: they expose their lovers to realism's fullest rebuttal, yet the significance of intense experience to the individuals concerned is nearly always validated, and never trivialised."
After the poem's initial publication in Australian Poetry 1957 it was reprinted as follows: