Author:Robert Ervin Howard/Poetry

Poetry

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Robert Ervin Howard

For more information see: Wikipedia: List of poems by Robert E. Howard

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.)
• Arcadian Days (Written in 1926; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 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.)
• 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.)
• But The Hills Were Ancient Then (First published in Amra, Vol. 2, #8, November-December 1959. Originally untitled.)
• The Chinese Gong (Written in 1928; first published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1, June 2007.)
• The Choir Girl (Written in 1928; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• Cimmeria (Written in 1934; first published in The Howard Collector #7, Winter 1965)
• Crete (First published in Weird Tales, February 1929.)
• Dead Man's Hate (First published in Weird Tales, January 1930.)
• The Deed Beyond The Deed (Written in 1928; first published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• 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 (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.)
• Drummings on an Empty Skull (First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, March 2007.)
• 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.)
• Envoy
• 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 Gods Remember
• The Grey Lover
• The Harp of Alfred (Published September 1928 in Weird Tales)
• High Blue Halls
• How to Select a Successful Evangelist
• Illusion (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, March 1926)
• Ivory in the Night
• Jack Dempsey
• John Kelley
• 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 Madness of Cormac
• The Maiden of Kercheezer (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
• A Mick in Israel
• Miser's Gold
• Monarchs
• Moon Mockery (First published in Weird Tales, April 1929)
• The Moor Ghost (Published September 1929 in Weird Tales)
• The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts
• The Mountains of California
• My Children
• Mystic
• Nancy Hawk - A Legend Of Virginity
• Not Only In Death They Die
• 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)
• Orientia
• The Parrot
• Poet
• Private Magrath of the A.E.F (First published in Yellow Jacket, January 1927)
• Prude
• A Rattlesnake Sings In The Grass
• Rebellion (First published in The Poet's Scroll, February 1929)
• Recompense (1938)
• Red Thunder (First published in JAPM: The Poetry Weekly, September 1929)
• Renunciation
• Repentance
• The Ride of Falume (First published in Weird Tales, October 1927)
• The Riders of Babylon (Published January 1928 in Weird Tales)
• The Road To Hell
• 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
• San Jacinto
• 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)
• Shadows
• Sighs in the Yellow Leaves
• The Singer in the Mist (First published in Weird Tales, April 1938)
• The Skull in the Clouds (Published August 1929 in The Junto. Alternate title: Reuben’s Birthright)
• Skulls and Dust (First published in American Poet, May 1929)
• Solomon Kane's Homecoming (First published in Fanciful Tales, Fall 1936)
• 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 Bats (Published May 1927 in Weird Tales)
• The Song of the Sage
• A Song Out of Midian (Published April 1930 in Weird Tales)
• Sonora to Del Rio (First published in The Howard Collector #1, Summer 1961)
• Summer Morn
• 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)
• That Women May Sing of Us
• Thor
• Tides (First published in Contemporary Verse, September 1929)
• To a Roman Woman
• To a Woman (First published in Modern American Poetry, October 1933)
• To Certain Cultured Women
• Toper
• To the Contended
• 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
• Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them

Untitled poems

• "Adam's loins were mountains"
• "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"
• "At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to win or lose"
• "Bill Boozy was a pirate bold"
• "By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshop"
• "A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs"
• "A cringing woman's lot is hard"
• "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 ..."
• "The east is red and I am dead ..."
• "Flappers flicker and flap and flirt"
• "Give ye of my best though the dole be meager ..."
• "He clutched his ..."
• "The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo ..."
• "Hills of the North! Lavender hills ..."
• "A hundred years the great war raged"
• "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 ..."
• "The iron harp that Adam christened Life ..."
• "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, the sabers sped ..."
• "Old Faro Bill was a man of might ..."
• "Out in front of Goldstein’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..."
• "The shades of night were falling faster ..."
• "Swords glimmered up the pass ..."
• "The spiders of weariness come on me ..."
• "Take some honey from a cat ..."
• "Then Stein the peddler with rising joy ..."
• "There once was a wicked old elf ..."
• "There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea ..."
• "There were three lads who went their destined ways ..."
• "They matched me up with a bird ..."
• "Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell"
• "We are the duckers of crosses ..."
• "What's become of Waring ..."
• "The women come and the women go ..."
• "The world goes back to the primitive, yea ..."