THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

[Maine Poet — 1869-1935.]

1905 printing of the 1897 edition

CONTENTS

The Children of the Night

Three Quatrains

The World

An Old Story

Ballade of a Ship

Ballade by the Fire

Ballade of Broken Flutes

Ballade of Dead Friends

Her Eyes

Two Men

Villanelle of Change

John Evereldown

Luke Havergal

The House on the Hill

Richard Cory

Two Octaves

Calvary

Dear Friends

The Story of the Ashes and the Flame

For Some Poems by Matthew