Author:Robert Ervin Howard/Poetry

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Poetry

Robert Ervin Howard

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Titled poems

• Adventure (Written in 1926; first published in The Cross Plainsman, August 2004.)
• Adventurer (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• The Alamo (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Always Comes Evening (First published in The Phantagraph, vol. 4 no. 5, August 1936.)
• Ambition (Written in 1930; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 2, October 2007.)
• An American (Written in 1928; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• An American Epic (Written in 1929; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1, June 2007.)
• Arkham (First published in Weird Tales, August 1932.)
• At The Bazaar (Written in 1929; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• "Aw Come On And Fight!" (Written in 1930; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 2, October 2007.)
• Babel (First published in The Fantasy Fan, January 1935.)
• But The Hills Were Ancient Then (First published in Amra, Vol. 2, #8, November-December 1959. Originally untitled.)
• The Choir Girl (Written in 1928; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Crete (First published in Weird Tales, February 1929.)
• Dead Man's Hate (First published in Weird Tales, January 1930.)
• Deeps (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Dreamer (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Dreaming On Downs (First published in The Poet's Scroll, April 1929.)
• Dreams Of Nineveh (First published in Golden Atom, 20th Anniversary Issue, 1959-1960.)
• Easter Island (First published in Weird Tales, December 1928.)
• 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)
• "Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or" (First published in The Junto, August 1929)
• 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)
• Girl
• A Great Man Speaks
• The Harp of Alfred (Published September 1928 in Weird Tales)
• Illusion (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, March 1926)
• Ivory in the Night
• Jack Dempsey
• John L. Sullivan (First published in The Right Hook, vol. 1, #2, 1925)
• 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
• Lesbia
• Libertine
• Life
• Lines to G. B. Shaw
• Lust
• 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 Mountains of California
• Nun
• Ocean-Thoughts
• The One Black Stain (First published in The Howard Collector #2, Spring 1962)
• One Blood Strain
• 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)
• Prude
• Rebellion (First published in The Poet's Scroll, February 1929)
• Recompense (1938)
• Red Thunder (First published in JAPM: The Poetry Weekly, September 1929)
• Repentance
• The Riders of Babylon (Published January 1928 in Weird Tales)
• The Ride of Falume (First published in Weird Tales, October 1927)
• The Robes of the Righteous
• A Roman Lady
• Romance
• Roundelay Of The Roughneck (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, April 1926)
• Rules of Etiquette (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
• Sailor
• The Sands of Time
• The Sea (First published in The Baylor United Statement, Spring 1923)
• Secrets
• Serpent
• Shadow of Dreams (First published in The Poet's Scroll, August 1929. Alternative title: Stay Not From Me)
• The Singer in the Mist (First published in Weird Tales, April 1938)
• 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)
• A Song of Cheer
• 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)
• Tarantella (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, May 1926)
• 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)
• To the Contended
• Toper
• A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans
• 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
• Arcadian Days (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore (Written in 1928; first published in The Cross Plainsman, August 2004.)
• A Ballad of Insanity (Written in 1928; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1, June 2007.)
• The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore (Written in 1928; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1, June 2007.)
• The Bombing of Gon Fanfew (Written in 1925; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• The Chinese Gong (Written in 1928; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1, June 2007.)
• The Deed Beyond The Deed (Written in 1928; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Dreaming (First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Drummings on an Empty Skull (First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Envoy
• The Grey Lover
• The Gods Remember
• High Blue Halls
• How to Select a Successful Evangelist
• John Kelley
• The Madness of Cormac
• A Mick in Israel
• The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts
• My Children
• Mystic
• Nancy Hawk - A Legend Of Virginity
• Only In Death They Die
• Orientia
• A Rattlesnake Sings In The Grass
• Renunciation
• The Road To Hell
• San Jacinto
• Shadows
• Sighs in the Yellow Leaves
• Song at Midnight (First published in The Phantagraph, August 1940. Alternative title: Man, the Master)
• A Song of College
• A Song of Greenwich
• The Song of the Sage
• Summer Morn
• That Women May Sing of Us
• Thor
• To a Roman Woman
• To Certain Cultured Women
• Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them

Untitled poems

• "A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne..."
• "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..."
• "And so his boyhood..."
• "Hills of the North! Lavender hills..."
• "Match a toad with a far-winged hawk..."
• "Mingle my dust with the burning brand..."
• "Moonlight and shadows barred the land..."
• "Old Faro Bill was a man of might..."
• "Rebel souls from the falling dark..."
• "Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight..."
• "Swords glimmered up the pass..."
• "The spiders of weariness come on me..."
• "There were three lads who went their destined ways..."
• "There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea..."
• "We are the duckers of crosses..."
• "A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs..."
• "A cringing woman’s lot is hard..."
• "A hundred years the great war raged..."
• "Adam’s loins were mountains..."
• "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... ..."
• "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..."
• "Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool..."
• "My brother he was a auctioneer..."
• "Noah was my applesauce..."
• "Now bright, now red, the sabers sped among the..."
• "Out in front of Goldestein’s..."
• "Out of Asia the tribesmen came..."
• "Ramona! Ramona!..."
• "Roses laughed in her pretty hair..."
• "Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold..."
• "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 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..."
• "They matched me up with a bird..."
• "Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell"
• "What's become of Waring..."

Wikilivres

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• Arkham (1932)
• Autumn (1933)
• Babylon (1957)
• Black Chant Imperial (1930)
• Desert Dawn (1939)
• The Dream and the Shadow (1937)
• A Dull Sound as of Knocking (2007)
• Emancipation (1957)
• Futility (1926)
• The Gods of Easter Island (1957)
• The Ghost Kings (1938)
• Haunting Columns (1938)
• The Heart of the Sea's Desire (1957)
• The Hills of Kandahar (1939)
• Hymn of Hatred (1957)
• Invective (1957)
• The King and the Oak (1939)
• The Last Hour (1938)
• Laughter in the Gulfs (1957)
• Lines Written In The Realization That I Must Die (1938)
• Men of the Shadows (1957)
• Moonlight on a Skull (1933)
• Moon Shame (1957)
• Nisapur (1957)
• An Open Window (1932)
• The Poets (1938)
• Recompense (1938)
• Remembrance (1928)
• Retribution (1957)
• The Road of Azrael (1957)
• Rune (1957)
• Shadows on the Road (1930)
• Ships (1938)
• The Singer in the Mist (1938)
• The Song of a Mad Minstrel (1931)
• A Song of the Don Cossacks (1957)
• Song of the Pict (1957)
• The Soul-Eater (1937)
• Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (1937)

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1936, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.