Author:Robert Ervin Howard/Poetry

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Robert Ervin Howard

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• Adventurer
• The Alamo
• Always Comes Evening (1936)
• Arkham (First published in Weird Tales, August 1932)
• Crete (Published February 1929 in Weird Tales)
• Dead Man's Hate (Published January 1930 in Weird Tales)
• Dreaming On Downs (First published in The Poet's Scroll, April 1929)
• Easter Island (Published December 1928 in Weird Tales)
• Empire's Destiny (First published in The Poet's Scroll, June 1929. Alternative title: Oh Babylon, Lost Babylon)
• Eternity
• Fables For Little Folk (Published March 1926 in Daniel Baker Collegian)
• Flaming Marble (First published in The Poet's Scroll, January 1929)
• Forbidden Magic (Published July 1929 in Weird Tales)
• The Gates of Ninevah (Published July 1928 in Weird Tales)
• The Gods Remember
• The Harp of Alfred (Published September 1928 in Weird Tales)
• Illusion (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, March 1926)
• Kid Lavigne is Dead (First published in The Ring, June 1928)
• The Kissing of Sal Snooboo (Published January 1925 in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper)
• A Lady's Chamber (First published in American Poet, April 1929)
• Laughter
• Life
• Lines to G. B. Shaw
• The Maiden of Kercheezer (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
• Miser's Gold
• Monarchs
• Moon Mockery (First published in Weird Tales, April 1929)
• The Moor Ghost (Published September 1929 in Weird Tales)
• The One Black Stain (First published in The Howard Collector #2, Spring 1962)
• One Who Comes at Eventide (First published in Modern American Poetry, October 1933)
• An Open Window (First published in Weird Tales, September 1932)
• Poet
• Private Magrath of the A.E.F (First published in Yellow Jacket, January 1927)
• Rebellion (First published in The Poet's Scroll, February 1929)
• Recompense (1938)
• Red Thunder (First published in JAPM: The Poetry Weekly, September 1929)
• The Riders of Babylon (Published January 1928 in Weird Tales)
• The Ride of Falume (First published in Weird Tales, October 1927)
• Roundelay Of The Roughneck (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, April 1926)
• Rules of Etiquette (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
• The Sands of Time
• The Sea (First published in The Baylor United Statement, Spring 1923)
• Shadow of Dreams (First published in The Poet's Scroll, August 1929. Alternative title: Stay Not From Me)
• Skulls and Dust (First published in American Poet, May 1929)
• The Skull in the Clouds (Published August 1929 in The Junto. Alternate title: Reuben’s Birthright)
• Solomon Kane's Homecoming (First published in Fanciful Tales, Fall 1936)
• The Song of the Bats (Published May 1927 in Weird Tales)
• A Song Out of Midian (Published April 1930 in Weird Tales)
• Sonora to Del Rio (First published in The Howard Collector #1, Summer 1961)
• Surrender (Published August 1929 in The Junto. Alternate title: The Road to Rest)
• The Tempter (Published June 1937 in Cross Plains Review)
• Tides (First published in Contemporary Verse, September 1929)
• To a Woman (First published in Modern American Poetry, October 1933)
• Visions
• The Voices Waken Memory (First published in The Fantasy Fan, September 1934. Alternative titles: A Drum Begins to Throb, Out of the Deep)
• The Weakling
• Adventure
• Ambition
• An American Epic
• An American
• Arcadian Days
• At The Bazaar
• Aw Come On And Fight!
• Babel (First published in The Fantasy Fan, January 1935)
• The Ballad Of Abe Slickemmore
• A Ballad Of Insanity
• The Ballad Of Monk Kickawhore
• Bombing Of Gon Fanfew, The
• But The Hills Were Ancient Then (First published In Amra, Vol. 2, #8, November-December 1959. Originally untitled)
• The Chinese Gong
• The Choir Girl
• The Deed Beyond The Deed
• Deeps
• Dreamer
• Dreaming
• Dreams Of Nineveh (First published in Golden Atom, 20th Anniversary Issue, 1959-1960)
• Drummings On An Empty Skull
• Envoy
• Girl
• A Great Man Speaks
• The Grey Lover
• High Blue Halls
• How to Select a Successful Evangelist
• Ivory in the Night
• Jack Dempsey
• John Kelley
• Lesbia
• Libertine
• Lust
• The Madness of Cormac
• A Mick in Israel
• The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts
• The Mountains of California
• My Children
• Mystic
• Nancy Hawk - A Legend Of Virginity
• Nun
• Ocean-Thoughts
• One Blood Strain
• Only In Death They Die
• Orientia
• Prude
• A Rattlesnake Sings In The Grass
• Renunciation
• Repentance
• The Road To Hell
• The Robes of the Righteous
• A Roman Lady
• Romance
• Sailor
• San Jacinto
• Secrets
• Serpent
• Shadows
• Sighs in the Yellow Leaves
• The Singer in the Mist (First published in Weird Tales, April 1938)
• Song at Midnight (First published in The Phantagraph, August 1940. Alternative title: Man, the Master)
• A Song of Cheer
• A Song of College
• A Song of Greenwich
• The Song of the Sage
• Summer Morn
• Tarantella (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, May 1926)
• That Women May Sing of Us
• Thor
• To a Roman Woman
• To Certain Cultured Women
• To the Contended
• Toper
• A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans
• Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them

[edit] Untitled poems

• "A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs..."
• "A cringing woman’s lot is hard..."
• "A hundred years the great war raged..."
• "A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne..."
• "Adam’s loins were mountains..."
• "After the trumps are sounded..."
• "Against the blood red moon a tower stands..."
• "All the crowd..."
• "And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd..."
• "At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to..."
• "Bill Boozy was a pirate bold..."
• "By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop where the..."
• "Dark are your eyes..."
• "determined. So I set out up..."
• "Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs..."
• "Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies..."
• "Flappers flicker and flap and flirt..."
• "Give ye of my best though the dole be meger..."
• "He clutched his... ..."
• "Hills of the North! Lavender hills..."
• "I am MAN from the primal, I..."
• "I am the Spirit of War!..."
• "I do not sing of a paradise..."
• "I hate the man who tells me that I lied..."
• "I hold all women are a gang of tramps..."
• "I lay in Yen’s opium joint..."
• "I tell you this my friend..."
• "Keep women, thrones and kingly lands..."
• "Let me live as I was born to live..."
• "Life is a cynical, romantic pig..."
• "Love is singing soft and low..."
• "Match a toad with a far-winged hawk..."
• "Mingle my dust with the burning brand..."
• "Moonlight and shadows barred the land..."
• "Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool..."
• "My brother he was a auctioneer..."
• "Noah was my applesauce..."
• "Now bright, now red, now red, the sabers sped among the..."
• "Old Faro Bill was a man of might..."
• "Out in front of Goldestein’s..."
• "Out of Asia the tribesmen came..."
• "Rebel souls from the falling dark..."
• "Romona! Romona!..."
• "Roses laughed in her pretty hair..."
• "Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold..."
• "Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight..."
• "Swords glimmered up the pass..."
• "Take some honey from a cat..."
• "that is the artistry is..."
• "The east is red and I am dead..."
• "The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo..."
• "The iron harp that Adam christened Life..."
• "The shades of night were falling faster..."
• "The spiders of weariness come on me..."
• "The women come and the women go..."
• "The world goes back to the primitive, yea..."
• "Then Stein the peddler with rising joy..."
• "There once was a wicked old elf..."
• "There were three lads who went their destined ways..."
• "There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea..."
• "They matched me up with a bird..."
• "Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell"
• "We are the duckers of crosses..."
• "Whats become of Waring..."

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• Autumn (1933)
• A Dull Sound as of Knocking (2007)
• Futility (1926)
• The Gods of Easter Island (1957)
• The Ghost Kings (1938)
• Hymn of Hatred (1957)
• Invective (1957)
• The King and the Oak (1939)
• The Last Hour (1938)
• Lines Written In The Realization That I Must Die (1938)
• Moonlight on a Skull (1933)
• Remembrance (1928)
• Which Will Scarecely Be Understood (1937)

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