Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems

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English

369 linked Howard works

• A Ballad of Beer verse Publications
• A Buccaneer Speaks verse Publications
• A Challenge to Bast verse Publications
• A Crown for a King verse Publications
• A Dawn in Flanders verse Publications
• A Dull Sound as of Knocking verse Publications
• A Dungeon Opens verse Publications
• A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure verse Publications
• A Fable for Critics verse Publications
• A Far Country verse Publications
• A Great Man Speaks verse Publications
• A Hairy Chested Idealist Sings verse Publications
• A Legend of Faring Town verse Publications
• A Man verse Publications
• A Moment verse Publications
• A Pirate Remembers verse Publications
• A Poet's Skull verse Publications
• A Riding Song verse Publications
• A Roman Lady verse Publications
• A Son of Spartacus verse Publications
• A Song of the Anchor Chain verse Publications
• A Song of the Don Cossacks verse Publications
• A Song of the Legions verse Publications
• A Song of the Werewolf Folk verse Publications
• A Sonnet of Good Cheer verse Publications
• A Stirring of Green Leaves verse Publications
• A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans verse Publications
• A Warning (partial verse, "You have built a world of paper and wood") verse Publications
• A Word from the Outer Dark verse Publications
• Adventure (1, "Adventure, I have followed your beck") verse Publications
• Adventure (2, "I am the spur . . .") verse Publications
• Adventurer verse Publications
• Age verse Publications
• Age Comes to Rabelais verse Publications
• Alien verse Publications
• All Hallows Eve verse Publications
• Always Comes Evening verse Publications
• Am-Ra the Ta-An verse Publications
• Ambition verse Publications
• An American verse Publications
• An American Epic verse Publications
• An Echo from the Iron Harp verse Publications
• An Incident of the Muscovy-Turkish War verse Publications
• An Open Window verse Publications
• An Outworn Story verse Publications
• Ancient English Balladel verse Publications
• And So I Sang verse Publications
• Another Hymn of Hate verse Publications
• Arkham verse Publications
• ASong of the Race verse Publications
• Astarte's Idol Stands Alone verse Publications
• At the Bazaar verse Publications
• Attila Rides No More verse Publications
• Autumn verse Publications
• Aw Come On and Fight! verse Publications
• Babel verse Publications
• Babylon verse Publications
• Ballade verse Publications
• Black Chant Imperial verse Publications
• Black Dawn verse Publications
• Black Harps in the Hills verse Publications
• Black Seas verse Publications
• Bloodstones and Ebony story Howard writing Publications
• Buccaneer Treasure verse Publications
• But The Hills Were Ancient Then verse Publications
• Castaway verse Publications
• Cimmeria verse Publications
• Cowboy verse Publications
• Crete verse Publications
• Crusade verse Publications
• Dead Man's Hate verse Publications
• Deeps verse Publications
• Desert Dawn verse Publications
• Desire verse Publications
• Destination verse Publications
• Destiny (1, "I think I was born . . .") verse Publications
• Destiny (2, "What is there . . .") verse Publications
• Devon Oak verse Publications
• Drake Sings of Yesterday verse Publications
• Dreamer verse Publications
• Dreaming on Downs verse Publications
• Dreams verse Publications
• Dreams of Nineveh verse Publications
• Drowned verse Publications
• Earth-Born verse Publications
• Easter Island verse Publications
• Echoes from an Anvil verse Publications
• Egypt verse Publications
• Emancipation verse Publications
• Empire's Destiny verse Publications
• Eric of Norway verse Publications
• Etchings in Ivory story Howard writing Publications
• Fables forLittle Folks verse Publications
• Far in the Gloomy Northland verse Publications
• Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or verse Publications
• Flaming Marble story Howard writing Publications
• Flaming Marble verse Publications
• Flight verse Publications
• Flint's Passing verse Publications
• Forbidden Magic verse Publications
• Fragment verse Publications
• Futility (2, "Time races on . . .") verse Publications
• Ghost Dancers verse Publications
• Girl verse Publications
• Hadrian's Wall verse Publications
• Harvest verse Publications
• Hate's Dawn verse Publications
• Haunting Columns verse Publications
• Heritage (1, "My people came . . .") verse Publications
• High Blue Halls verse Publications
• Hope Emptyof Meaning verse Publications
• Hymn of Hatred verse Publications
• I Praise My Nativity verse Publications
• Illusion verse Publications
• In the Ring verse Publications
• Jack Dempsey verse Publications
• John L. Sullivan verse Publications
• John Ringold verse Publications
• Ju-Ju Doom verse Publications
• Kellythe Conjure-Man verse Publications
• Keresa, Keresita verse Publications
• Kid LavigneIs Dead verse Publications
• Kings of the Night verse Publications
• L'envoi (3, "Twilight striding o'er the mountain") verse Publications
• Laughter in the Gulfs verse Publications
• Lesbia verse Publications
• Libertine verse Publications
• Life (1, "About me rise the primal mists") verse Publications
• Lilith verse Publications
• Lines Written In theRealization That I Must Die verse Publications
• Little Brown Man of Nippon verse Publications
• Longfellow Revised verse Publications
• Love verse Publications
• Love's Young Dream verse Publications
• Man Am I verse Publications
• Marching Song of Connacht verse Publications
• Mark of theBeast verse Publications
• Medallions in the Moon story Howard writing Publications
• Memories (1,"I rose . . .") verse Publications
• Memories of Alfred verse Publications
• Men of the Shadows verse Publications
• Miser's Gold verse Publications
• Modest Bill verse Publications
• Monarchs verse Publications
• Moon Mockery verse Publications
• Moon Shame verse Publications
• Moonlight on a Skull verse Publications
• Musings (1, "The little poets . . .") verse Publications
• Nectar verse Publications
• NeverBeyond the Beast verse Publications
• Night Mood verse Publications
• Nights to Both ofUs Known verse Publications
• Nisapur verse Publications
• No Man's Land verse Publications
• Nocturne verse Publications
• Nun verse Publications
• Ocean-Thoughts verse Publications
• Oh Babylon, Lost Babylon verse Publications
• On With the Play verse Publications
• One Blood Stain verse Publications
• One Who Comes At Eventide verse Publications
• Only a Shadow on the Grass verse Publications
• Parody verse Publications
• Private Magrath of the A.E.F. verse Publications
• Proem story Howard writing Publications
• Prude verse Publications
• Queen of the Black Coast verse Publications
• Rebel verse Publications
• Rebellion verse Publications
• Recompense verse Publications
• Red Blades of Black Cathay verse Publications
• Red Thunder verse Publications
• Remembrance verse Publications
• Repentance verse Publications
• Retribution verse Publications
• Reuben's Brethren verse Publications
• Roads verse Publications
• Roar, Silver Trumpets verse Publications
• Romance (2, "Shouting I come, flouting I come") verse Publications
• Romany Road verse Publications
• Rune verse Publications
• Sailor verse Publications
• San Jacinto (1, "Flowers bloom on San Jacinto") verse Publications
• San Jacinto (2, "Red fields of glory") verse Publications
• Serpent verse Publications
• Shadow of Dreams verse Publications
• Shadow Thing verse Publications
• Shadows from Yesterday verse Publications
• Shadows of Dreams verse Publications
• Shadows on the Road verse Publications
• Ships verse Publications
• Singing Hemp verse Publications
• Skulls and Orchids story Howard writing Publications
• Skulls over Judah verse Publications
• Slumber verse Publications
• Solomon Kane's Homecoming (1, original) verse Publications
• Something About Eve verse Publications
• Song Before Clontarf verse Publications
• Song of the Pict verse Publications
• Sonora to Del Rio verse Publications
• Surrender (2, "Open the window and let me go") verse Publications
• Swamp Murder verse Publications
• Symbols verse Publications
• The Actor verse Publications
• The Adventurer's Mistress (1, "The scarlet standards of the sun") verse Publications
• The Affair at the Tavern verse Publications
• The Ages Stride on Golden Feet verse Publications
• The Alamo verse Publications
• The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts verse Publications
• The Ballad of King Geraint verse Publications
• The Bar by the Side of the Road verse Publications
• The Baron and the Wench verse Publications
• The Bell of Morni verse Publications
• The Black Stone verse Publications
• The Blood of Belshazzar verse Publications
• The Bride of Cuchulain verse Publications
• The Builders (1, "We reared up Babel's towers") verse Publications
• The Call of Pan verse Publications
• The Call of the Sea verse Publications
• The Campus at Midnight verse Publications
• The Cats of Anubis verse Publications
• The Cells ofThe Coliseum verse Publications
• The Champ verse Publications
• The Chant Demoniac verse Publications
• The Choir Girl verse Publications
• The Cooling of Spike Mcrue verse Publications
• The Cry Everlasting verse Publications
• The Dance with Death verse Publications
• The Day Breaks over Simla verse Publications
• The Day That I Die verse Publications
• The Dead Slaver's Tale verse Publications
• The Dream and the Shadow verse Publications
• The Drum verse Publications
• The Drums of Pictdom verse Publications
• The Dust Dance (2, "The sin and jest of the times am I") verse Publications
• The Dweller in Dark Valley verse Publications
• The Fear That Follows verse Publications
• The Feud verse Publications
• The Follower verse Publications
• The Gates of Babylon verse Publications
• The Gates of Nineveh verse Publications
• The Ghost Kings verse Publications
• The Ghost Ocean verse Publications
• The Gladiator and the Lady verse Publications
• The Gods I Worshipped verse Publications
• The Gods of Easter Island verse Publications
• The Gods of the Jungle Drums verse Publications
• The Gods That Men Forget story Howard writing Publications
• The Grey God Passes verse Publications
• The Grim Land verse Publications
• The Guise of Youth verse Publications
• The Harp of Alfred verse Publications
• The Heart of the Sea's Desire verse Publications
• The Hills of Kandahar verse Publications
• The Hour of the Dragon verse Publications
• The Isle of Hy-Brasil verse Publications
• The King and the Oak verse Publications
• The Kiowa's Tale verse Publications
• The Kissing of Sal Snooboo verse Publications
• The Last Hour verse Publications
• The Last Words He Heard verse Publications
• The Lion of Tiberias verse Publications
• The Lost Galley verse Publications
• The Lost San Saba Mine verse Publications
• The Maiden of Kercheezer verse Publications
• The Master-Drum verse Publications
• The Men That Walk With Satan verse Publications
• The Moor Ghost verse Publications
• The Mountains of California verse Publications
• The Myth verse Publications
• The Night Winds verse Publications
• The OneBlack Stain verse Publications
• The Open Window verse Publications
• The Outcast verse Publications
• The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer verse Publications
• The Passionate Typist verse Publications
• The Path of the Strange Wanderers verse Publications
• The Peasant on the Euphrates verse Publications
• The Phantoms Gather verse Publications
• The Phoenix on the Sword verse Publications
• The Poets verse Publications
• The Pool of the Black One verse Publications
• The Return of Sir Richard Grenville verse Publications
• The Return of the Sea-Farer verse Publications
• The Rhyme of the Three Slavers verse Publications
• The Ride of Falume verse Publications
• The Riders of Babylon verse Publications
• The Road of Azrael verse Publications
• The Road to Bliss verse Publications
• The Road to Yesterday verse Publications
• The Robes of the Righteous verse Publications
• The Sand-Hills' Crest verse Publications
• The Sands of Time verse Publications
• The Scarlet Citadel verse Publications
• The Sea Girl verse Publications
• The Sea-Woman verse Publications
• The Singer in the Mist (1) verse Publications
• The Song of a Mad Minstrel verse Publications
• The Song of Horsa's Galley verse Publications
• The Soul-Eater verse Publications
• The Sowers of the Thunder verse Publications
• The Stranger verse Publications
• The Symbol verse Publications
• The Tavern verse Publications
• The Tempter verse Publications
• The Thing on the Roof verse Publications
• The Tide verse Publications
• The Tower of Zukala verse Publications
• The Viking of the Sky verse Publications
• The Voices Waken Memory verse Publications
• The Wheel of Destiny verse Publications
• The Witch verse Publications
• The Years Are As a Knife verse Publications
• The Zulu Lord verse Publications
• Thor's Son verse Publications
• Thus Spake Sven the Fool verse Publications
• Time, the Victor verse Publications
• Timur-Lang verse Publications
• To a Friend verse Publications
• To a Nameless Woman verse Publications
• To a Woman (2, "Though fathoms deep . . .") verse Publications
• To All Sophisticates verse Publications
• To Harry the Oliad Man verse Publications
• To Lyle Saxon verse Publications
• To Moderns verse Publications
• To the Contented verse Publications
• To the Evangelists verse Publications
• To the Stylists verse Publications
• Toper verse Publications
• Twilight on Stonehenge verse Publications
• Two Men verse Publications
• Universe verse Publications
• Untamed Avatars verse Publications
• Untitled ("A beggar, singing without") verse Publications
• Untitled ("A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne") verse Publications
• Untitled ("After the trumps are sounded") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands") verse Publications
• Untitled ("All the crowd") verse Publications
• Untitled ("And Bill, he looked at me . . .") verse Publications
• Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd . . .") verse Publications
• Untitled ("For what is a maid to the shout of kings?") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Men are toys . . .") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Rebel souls from the falling dark") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight") verse Publications
• Untitled ("Swords glimmered up the pass") verse Publications
• Untitled ("The times, the times . . .") verse Publications
• Untitled ("There were three lads who went their destined ways") verse Publications
• Untitled ("They matched me up that night . . .") verse Publications
• Untitled ("This is a young world") verse Publications
• Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses") verse Publications
• Up John Kane! verse Publications
• Victory verse Publications
• Viking's Trail verse Publications
• Viking's Vision verse Publications
• Visions verse Publications
• When Death Drops Her Veil verse Publications
• When the Gods Were Kings verse Publications
• When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham verse Publications
• Where Are Your Knights, Donn Othna? verse Publications
• Which Will Scarcely Be Understood verse Publications
• White Thunder verse Publications
• Zukala's Hour verse Publications
• Zukala's Jest verse Publications
• Zukala's Love Song verse Publications
• Zululand verse Publications

39 contents entries

1. "Introduction" by Frank Coffman
2. "Works Cited In The Introduction" by Frank Coffman
3. "Notes On The Introduction" by Frank Coffman
4. "Some Notes On Editorial Choices And Format" by Frank Coffman
5. "Select Bibliography" by Frank Coffman
6. "Proem"
7. I. Adventure’s Call & Wanderlust
8. II. Barbarism Ascendant
9. III. Celtic Connections, Heritage, Ancestry and the "The Northern Thing"
10. IV. Cosmic Visions
11. V. Howard’s World
12. VI. Human Baseness & Natural Depravity
13. VII. Light & Risqué Verses
14. VIII. Love, Lust, & Sensuality
15. IX. Nihilism, Futility, & Disillusionment
16. X. Poems on Poetry Itself, Poets
17. XI. People Poems: Vignettes of Humanity
18. XII. The Realms of Gold: Exotic Places Real and Imagined
19. XIII. Reflections & Introspections
20. XIV. Reincarnation
21. XV. The Road to Yesterday: Poems Based upon History
22. XVI. Short Measures of Joy & The Awesome Beauty of Nature
23. XVII. The Soothing Dust: Poems on Suicide and the Subject of Death
24. XVIII. Transience, Mutability, Carpe Diem & Ubi Sunt
25. XIX. Ballads & Other Narratives
26. XX. Poems from Biblical & Hebrew Sources
27. XXI. Boxing Ballads: Poems About Pugilism
28. XXII. The Dark Continent
29. XXIII. Dark Fantasy & Horror
30. XXIV. The Grim Land: Tales of Texas and the West
31. XXV. Longer Narratives: Howard and Epic Song
32. XXVI. Pirate Tales
33. XXVII. Poems Relevant to the Prose Fiction
34. XXVIII. Viking Tales
35. XXIX. Poetic Sequences
36. XXX. Prose Poems
37. "Index of Titles"
38. "Index of First Lines"
39. "Form-Finder" (Index of the Poems by Form/Genre)

Contributors

Frank Coffman

Introduction author, Editor