The Children of the Night (1921)

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

For works with similar titles, see The Children of the Night.

THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

The Children of the Night

A Book of Poems

BY

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1921

COPYRIGHT, 1896 AND 1897, BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

 

THE SCRIBNER PRESS

TO THE MEMORY

OF

MY FATHER AND MOTHER

CONTENTS

PAGE

The Children of the Night ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

11

Three Quatrains ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

13

The World ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

16

An Old Story ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

17

Ballade of a Ship ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

18

Ballade by the Fire ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

20

Ballade of Broken Flutes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

22

Ballade of Dead Friends ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

24

Her Eyes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

Two Men ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

28

Villanelle of Change ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

29

John Evereldown ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

30

Luke Havergal ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

32

The House on the Hill ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

34

Richard Cory ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

Two Octaves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

36

Calvary ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

38

Dear Friends ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

39

The Story of the Ashes and the Flame ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

40

For Some Poems by Matthew Arnold ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

41

Amaryllis ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

42

Kosmos ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

Zola ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

44

The Pity of the Leaves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

45

Aaron Stark ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

46

The Garden ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

47

Cliff Klingenhagen ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

48

Charles Carville’s Eyes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

49

The Dead Village ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

50

Boston ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

51

Two Sonnets ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

The Clerks ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

54

Fleming Helphenstine ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

55

For a Book by Thomas Hardy ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

56

Thomas Hood ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

57

The Miracle ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

58

Horace to Leuconoë ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

59

Reuben Bright ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

60

The Altar ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

61

The Tavern ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

62

Sonnet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

63

George Crabbe ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

64

Credo ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

On the Night of a Friend's Wedding ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

66

Sonnet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

67

Verlaine ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

68

Sonnet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

69

Supremacy ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

70

The Night Before ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

71

Walt Whitman ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

85

The Chorus of Old Men in "Ægeus" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

86

The Wilderness ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

88

Octaves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

91

Two Quatrains ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

116

Romance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

118

The Torrent ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

120

L’Envoi ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

121