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A Haunting Cadence

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Category
Seeking Adventure and Freedom
SectionPoetry for Friends

Opening lines

A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing,Afar, afar, oh red heart in my bosom!Like ghost drums wailing in the dark blue bowl of the night.Like pipes of strange dancers on the sward.

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Characters in this Work

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the African womanunnamed woman in the speaker’s African remembered life in “A Haunting Cadence”1 textual statethe Manchu princessunnamed Manchu princess with whom the speaker lies in a remembered life in “A Haunting Cadence”1 textual statethe mandarinunnamed mandarin whose pagoda garden appears in the speaker’s remembered life in “A Haunting Cadence”1 textual statethe Matabele chiefunnamed Matabele chief whose treasure hut holds old ivory in “A Haunting Cadence”1 textual state

Publication appearances

The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929REH Foundation PressJune 2007↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. HowardREH Foundation PressJanuary 2009↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume ThreeREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗Yesteryear #4Glenn Lord↗