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  1. The Children of the Night

    2:24

  2. Three Quatrains

    0:43

  3. The World

    0:56

  4. An Old Story

    0:45

  5. Ballade of a Ship

    1:53

  6. Ballade by the Fire

    1:33

  7. Ballade of Broken Flutes

    1:38

  8. Ballade of Dead Friends

    1:22

  9. Her Eyes

    2:04

  10. Two Men

    1:07

  11. Villanelle of Change

    1:17

  12. John Evereldown

    2:28

  13. Luke Havergal

    1:54

  14. The House on the Hill

    1:01

  15. Richard Cory

    1:06

  16. Two Octaves

    1:14

  17. Calvary

    1:05

  18. Dear Friends

    1:02

  19. The Story of the Ashes and the Flame

    0:59

  20. For Some Poems by Matthew Arnold

    1:13

  21. Amaryllis

    0:59

  22. Kosmos

    1:19

  23. Zola

    1:02

  24. The Pity of the Leaves

    1:08

  25. Aaron Stark

    1:33

  26. The Garden

    1:04

  27. Cliff Klingenhagen

    1:13

  28. Charles Carville's Eyes

    1:07

  29. The Dead Village

    0:53

  30. Boston

    0:39

  31. Two Sonnets

    1:53

  32. The Clerks

    1:08

  33. Fleming Helphenstine

    1:28

  34. For a Book by Thomas Hardy

    1:04

  35. Thomas Hood

    1:14

  36. The Miracle

    1:17

  37. Horace to Leuconoe

    1:03

  38. Reuben Bright

    1:15

  39. The Altar

    1:04

  40. The Tavern

    1:00

  41. Sonnet

    0:46

  42. George Crabbe

    1:16

  43. Credo

    0:54

  44. On the Night of a Friend's Wedding

    1:01

  45. Sonnet

    1:05

  46. Verlaine

    1:04

  47. Sonnet

    1:05

  48. Supremacy

    1:07

  49. The Night Before

    20:10

  50. Walt Whitman

    1:19

  51. The Chorus of Old Men in 'Aegeus'

    2:26

  52. The Wilderness

    2:39

  53. Octaves

    12:07

  54. Two Quatrains

    0:48

  55. Romance

    1:12

  56. The Torrent

    0:59

  57. L'Envoi

    1:19

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Faith, grief and the wish to belong run through Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems, which give private doubts a public voice. The opening poem considers people shut out from comfort and asks how belief can answer suffering. Short quatrains turn to ambition, fame and the limits of success, while the ballades use repeated lines to return to friendship, loss and the passing years. The packet's text comes from a 1905 printing of the 1897 edition.

Elsewhere, a painter's devotion to his work and a speaker's memories beside a fading fire bring those concerns into particular lives. Sonnets examine the judgment of other people and the relation between art and its maker. Readers interested in American verse can compare these compact forms with the more conversational voice of the dramatic poems, following how rhythm and recurring images shape reflection on human worth.

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Sonia, James Lapine, John Burlinson (1950-2024) and others