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Children of the Night (poetry collection)

Field	Value
name	The Children of the Night: A Book of Poems
image	The Children of the Night.png
caption	Title page for The Children of the Night (1897)
author	Edwin Arlington Robinson
language	English
country	United States
genre	Poetry
media_type	Print
release_date	1897

The Children of the Night: A Book of Poems was the second volume of poetry published by the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. While the volume was weakly received, President Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit introduced the work to his father who, knowing his straits, secured Robinson a job at the NY Customs Office.

Content

Notable poems include "John Evereldown", "Richard Cory", "Reuben Bright", and "Luke Havergal" which was included in Harold Bloom's Best Poems of the English Language.

In July 2008, Project Gutenberg released the 1905 printing of the 1897 edition, containing the following poems:

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 Arnold
Amaryllis
Kosmos
Zola
The Pity of the Leaves
Aaron Stark
The Garden
Cliff Klingenhagen
Charles Carville's Eyes
The Dead Village
Boston
Two Sonnets
The Clerks
Fleming Helphenstine
For a Book by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hood
The Miracle
Horace to Leuconoe
Reuben Bright
The Altar
The Tavern
Sonnet
George Crabbe
Credo
On the Night of a Friend's Wedding
Sonnet
Verlaine
Sonnet
Supremacy
The Night Before
Walt Whitman
The Chorus of Old Men in "Aegeus"
The Wilderness
Octaves
Two Quatrains
The two umbrellas

References

"Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson".

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