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The Years Are as a Knife

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Opening lines

The years are as a knife against my heart.Of what avail the labor and the sweat,To hammer on the anvil men call art,A soulless, gleaming tinsel, sparkling wet

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Death in The Years Are as a Knifepersonified Death with his hand on a silent Door1 textual stateJesus Christhistorical religious figure explicitly invoked by Howard in direct prose1 textual state

Publication appearances

Magazine of Horror #19Health Knowledge, Inc.January 1968↗Echoes from an Iron HarpDonald M. Grant1972↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. HowardREH Foundation PressJanuary 2009↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume TwoREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗