Children of the Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Children of the Night, credited to Edwin Arlington Robinson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Read in English by Jacquelyn Bengfort; Rob Smith; Sonia; Andree-Ann Granger; Robert K; Bridget Paul; John Burlinson; James Lapine; graciaselah; Bridget Herbes; Ross Klatte; Marissa Parker; Geza Hrazdina This is a collection of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, titled the Children of the Night, and including, besides the famous title poem, several ballads, and poems dedicated to other authors and poets. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Children of the Night
• Author credits: Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 1:42:24

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poems
• Verlaine
• Zola
• whitman
• Boston
• crabbe
• bright

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - The Children of the Night — 2:24
2. 02 - Three Quatrains — 0:43
3. 03 - The World — 0:56
4. 04 - An Old Story — 0:45
5. 05 - Ballade of a Ship — 1:53
6. 06 - Ballade by the Fire — 1:33
7. 07 - Ballade of Broken Flutes — 1:38
8. 08 - Ballade of Dead Friends — 1:22
9. 09 - Her Eyes — 2:04
10. 10 - Two Men — 1:07
11. 11 - Villanelle of Change — 1:17
12. 12 - John Evereldown — 2:28
13. 13 - Luke Havergal — 1:54
14. 14 - The House on the Hill — 1:01
15. 15 - Richard Cory — 1:06
16. 16 - Two Octaves — 1:14
17. 17 - Calvary — 1:05
18. 18 - Dear Friends — 1:02
19. 19 - The Story of the Ashes and the Flame — 0:59
20. 20 - For Some Poems by Matthew Arnold — 1:13
21. 21 - Amaryllis — 0:59
22. 22 - Kosmos — 1:19
23. 23 - Zola — 1:02
24. 24 - The Pity of the Leaves — 1:08

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