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The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

First published 2009
Series Robert E. Howard - Poetry Collections
Publisher The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages lxxix+728
Price $59.00

The cover photo is the second-most common photo of Robert E. Howard used in genre publications.


Edited by Rob Roehm.
First Edition (not stated).
Limited to 150 numbered copies.
Untitled poems are titled by their first lines with initial caps only.
Two typescript facsimiles laid in: "The Hour of the Dragon" and "To a Woman ('Thus in my mood I love you...')".
In "A Song of the Race" the word "westerns" should be "western".
On page xxxii, Viola Garvin is called "Violin".
In the "Index of Titles", some poems have "(see Notes, pg.___" instead of a page number. The numbers in the blanks are generally one or two digits off because two poems were inserted into the text at the last minute.
"Old Rime", the epigraph for the story "Rogues in the House" was inadvertently left out. A facsimile of the first page of the Weird Tales version of the story was sent to buyers at no charge.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The King and the Oak Robert E. Howard Poem
4 The Road of Azrael Robert E. Howard Poem
5 The Riders of Babylon Robert E. Howard Poem
5 Timur-Lang Robert E. Howard Poem
6 Brazen Thewed Giant of a Grimmer Age (Unfinished) Robert E. Howard Poem
6 The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer Robert E. Howard Poem
10 The Deed Beyond the Deed Robert E. Howard Poem
11 The Ride of Falume Robert E. Howard Poem
12 A Song of the Don Cossacks Robert E. Howard Poem
12 The Ballad of Dark Agnes Robert E. Howard Poem
13 And Beowulf Rides Again Robert E. Howard Poem
14 A Buccaneer Speaks Robert E. Howard Poem
15 Solomon Kane's Homecoming Robert E. Howard Poem
18 Solomon Kane's Homecoming (Variant) Robert E. Howard Poem
20 The Sword of Mahommed Robert E. Howard Poem
21 A Song of the Naked Lands Robert E. Howard Poem
24 Memories of Alfred Robert E. Howard Poem
25 The Chief of the Matabeles Robert E. Howard Poem
27 Drums in My Ears Robert E. Howard Poem
28 The One Black Stain Robert E. Howard Poem
31 Roundelay of the Roughneck Robert E. Howard Poem
31 The Grey God Passes Robert E. Howard Poem
33 Kings of the Night Robert E. Howard Poem
34 Marching Song of Connacht Robert E. Howard Poem
34 The Lion of Tiberias Robert E. Howard Poem
35 Rattle of Drums Robert E. Howard Poem
36 Hadrian's Wall Robert E. Howard Poem
37 Reuben's Brethren Robert E. Howard Poem
38 Remembrance Robert E. Howard Poem
38 The Madness of Cormac Robert E. Howard Poem
39 The Phoenix on the Sword Robert E. Howard Poem
40 The Return of Sir Richard Grenville Robert E. Howard Poem
41 To Harry the Oliad Men Robert E. Howard Poem
42 The Skull in the Clouds Robert E. Howard Poem
44 The Sowers of the Thunder Robert E. Howard Poem
45 Swords Glimmered Up the Pass Robert E. Howard Poem
47 Red Blades of Black Cathay Robert E. Howard Poem
48 Queen of the Black Coast Robert E. Howard Poem
49 Thor Robert E. Howard Poem
49 Thor's Son Robert E. Howard Poem
50 Am-Ra the Ta-An Robert E. Howard Poem
53 When Death Drops Her Veil Robert E. Howard Poem
54 A Thousand Years Ago Robert E. Howard Poem
55 Viking's Vision Robert E. Howard Poem
56 The Song of the Last Briton Robert E. Howard Poem
57 The Song of Horsa's Galley Robert E. Howard Poem
58 Black Harps in the Hills Robert E. Howard Poem
59 The Song of Yar Ali Khan Robert E. Howard Poem
60 Now Bright, Now Red, the Sabers Sped Robert E. Howard Poem
61 A Song of the Legions Robert E. Howard Poem
62 Viking's Trail Robert E. Howard Poem
63 Singing Hemp Robert E. Howard Poem
64 The Return of the Sea-Farer Robert E. Howard Poem
65 A Legend Robert E. Howard Poem
66 Niflheim Robert E. Howard Poem
67 When Men Were Bold (Unfinished) Robert E. Howard Poem
68 The Sword of Lal Singh Robert E. Howard Poem
69 The Scarlet Citadel Robert E. Howard Poem
70 Where Are Your Knights, Donn Othna? Robert E. Howard Poem
71 Song Before Clontarf Robert E. Howard Poem
72 Fill Up My Goblet Robert E. Howard Poem
73 The Ballad of King Geraint Robert E. Howard Poem
105 A Dawn in Flanders Robert E. Howard Poem
105 Hate's Dawn Robert E. Howard Poem
106 The Legacy of Tubal-Cain Robert E. Howard Poem
106 War to the Blind Robert E. Howard Poem
107 A Son of Spartacus Robert E. Howard Poem
108 White Thunder Robert E. Howard Poem
109 I Am the Spirit of War! Robert E. Howard Poem
110 The Viking of the Sky Robert E. Howard Poem
112 Life ("They bruised my soul with a proverb...") Robert E. Howard Poem
113 Lunacy Chant Robert E. Howard Poem
113 The Drum Robert E. Howard Poem
114 Private Magrath of the A. E. F. Robert E. Howard Poem
116 No Man's Land Robert E. Howard Poem
121 Rune Robert E. Howard Poem
122 A Song for Men That Laugh Robert E. Howard Poem
122 Kelly the Conjure-Man Robert E. Howard Poem
123 Black Chant Imperial Robert E. Howard Poem
124 Empire Robert E. Howard Poem
125 Zukala's Love Song Robert E. Howard Poem
128 Zukala's Jest Robert E. Howard Poem
129 Zukala's Hour Robert E. Howard Poem
130 The Tower of Zukala Robert E. Howard Poem
132 Lilith Robert E. Howard Poem
133 The Dust Dance ("For I, with the shape of my kin...") Robert E. Howard Poem
135 The Dust Dance ("The sin and jest of the times am I...") Robert E. Howard Poem
139 The Stranger Robert E. Howard Poem
140 Altars and Jesters Robert E. Howard Poem
143 The Chant Demoniac Robert E. Howard Poem
144 The Road to Hell Robert E. Howard Poem
145 Counterspells Robert E. Howard Poem
145 The Mysteries Robert E. Howard Poem
146 Always Comes Evening Robert E. Howard Poem
147 The Song of the Bats Robert E. Howard Poem
148 The Lost Galley Robert E. Howard Poem
149 Rebel Robert E. Howard Poem
152 Baal-Pteor Robert E. Howard Poem
153 Baal Robert E. Howard Poem
154 Astarte's Idol Stands Alone Robert E. Howard Poem
154 Mystic Lore Robert E. Howard Poem
155 The Palace of Bast Robert E. Howard Poem
156 The Coming of Bast Robert E. Howard Poem
157 A Challenge to Bast Robert E. Howard Poem
158 The Coming of Bast (Draft) Robert E. Howard Poem
159 The Worshippers Robert E. Howard Poem
160 Oh, We Are Little Children, Marching on to Hell! Robert E. Howard Poem
161 The Song of a Mad Minstrel Robert E. Howard Poem
162 The Iron Harp That Adam Christened Life Robert E. Howard Poem
163 Victory Robert E. Howard Poem
164 Ju-Ju Doom Robert E. Howard Poem
165 Futility ("Golden goats on a hillside black ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
165 Moonlight on a Skull Robert E. Howard Poem
166 A Warning (Partial Verse) ("You have built a world of paper and wood...") Robert E. Howard Poem
167 A Warning (Complete Verse) ("I come in the wail of the broken skies...") Robert E. Howard Poem
168 Thus Spake Sven the Fool Robert E. Howard Poem
168 To All Lords of Commerce Robert E. Howard Poem
169 The Witch Robert E. Howard Poem
170 The Symbol Robert E. Howard Poem
171 The Last Day Robert E. Howard Poem
172 The Men That Walk with Satan Robert E. Howard Poem
173 Mad Meg Gill Robert E. Howard Poem
174 Something About Eve Robert E. Howard Poem
174 The Shadow of the Beast Robert E. Howard Poem
175 Skulls and Dust Robert E. Howard Poem
176 Red Thunder Robert E. Howard Poem
177 The Slayer Robert E. Howard Poem
178 Candles Robert E. Howard Poem
178 Forbidden Magic Robert E. Howard Poem
179 The Cats of Anubis Robert E. Howard Poem
180 The Cats of Anubis (Variant) Robert E. Howard Poem
181 Destination Robert E. Howard Poem
185 A Lady's Chamber Robert E. Howard Poem
185 Death's Black Riders Robert E. Howard Poem
186 Dead Man's Hate Robert E. Howard Poem
187 An Open Window Robert E. Howard Poem
187 Hymn of Hatred Robert E. Howard Poem
188 Clouds Robert E. Howard Poem
188 Shadows ("A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
189 Shrines Robert E. Howard Poem
189 The Iron Harp ("They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar...") Robert E. Howard Poem
190 Invocation Robert E. Howard Poem
191 The Tale the Dead Slaver Told Robert E. Howard Poem
192 Up John Kane! Robert E. Howard Poem
193 The Bell of Morni Robert E. Howard Poem
194 Cornish Jack Robert E. Howard Poem
195 The Fearsome Touch of Death Robert E. Howard Poem
196 The Black Stone Robert E. Howard Poem
196 The Song of the Gallows Tree Robert E. Howard Poem
197 Against the Blood Red Moon a Tower Stands Robert E. Howard Poem
197 All Hallows Eve Robert E. Howard Poem
198 A Vision Robert E. Howard Poem
199 At the Bazaar Robert E. Howard Poem
199 The Phantoms Gather Robert E. Howard Poem
200 A Legend of Faring Town Robert E. Howard Poem
201 The Ghost Ocean Robert E. Howard Poem
201 The Skull of Silence Robert E. Howard Poem
202 The Zulu Lord Robert E. Howard Poem
203 Dance Macabre Robert E. Howard Poem
204 Buccaneer Treasure Robert E. Howard Poem
211 Ivory in the Night Robert E. Howard Poem
212 Arkham Robert E. Howard Poem
212 Fragment Robert E. Howard Poem
213 The Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
214 The Dweller in Dark Valley Robert E. Howard Poem
215 As I Rode Down to Lincoln Town Robert E. Howard Poem
215 Drowned Robert E. Howard Poem
216 The Hour of the Dragon Robert E. Howard Poem
216 The Last Words He Heard Robert E. Howard Poem
217 Shadow Thing Robert E. Howard Poem
218 The Fear That Follows Robert E. Howard Poem
219 Moon Mockery Robert E. Howard Poem
220 Black Seas Robert E. Howard Poem
220 One Who Comes at Eventide Robert E. Howard Poem
221 The Ghost Kings Robert E. Howard Poem
222 Not Only in Death They Die Robert E. Howard Poem
222 The Oaks Robert E. Howard Poem
223 Recompense Robert E. Howard Poem
224 Secrets Robert E. Howard Poem
225 The Thing on the Roof Robert E. Howard Poem
226 Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls Robert E. Howard Poem
227 A Dull Sound as of Knocking Robert E. Howard Poem
227 Miser's Gold Robert E. Howard Poem
228 The Rhyme of the Three Slavers Robert E. Howard Poem
229 The Pool of the Black One Robert E. Howard Poem
230 A Pirate Remembers Robert E. Howard Poem
230 Devon Oak Robert E. Howard Poem
231 To a Woman ("Though fathoms deep you sink me in the mold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
232 A Song of the Werewolf Folk Robert E. Howard Poem
233 Song at Midnight Robert E. Howard Poem
234 Shadows ("Grey ghost, dim ghost...") Robert E. Howard Poem
234 Swamp Murder Robert E. Howard Poem
235 The Moor Ghost Robert E. Howard Poem
236 Far in the Gloomy Northland Robert E. Howard Poem
236 The House in the Oaks Robert E. Howard Poem
237 The Tavern Robert E. Howard Poem
238 The Dream and the Shadow Robert E. Howard Poem
238 The Singer in the Mist Robert E. Howard Poem
239 Haunting Columns Robert E. Howard Poem
239 The Soul-Eater Robert E. Howard Poem
240 The Last Hour Robert E. Howard Poem
240 The Voices Waken Memory Robert E. Howard Poem
241 Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
242 Laughter in the Gulfs Robert E. Howard Poem
242 Moon Shame Robert E. Howard Poem
243 A Crown for a King Robert E. Howard Poem
247 Cimmeria Robert E. Howard Poem
248 Long Ago Robert E. Howard Poem
248 Slumber Robert E. Howard Poem
249 Crete Robert E. Howard Poem
249 Romance ("Shouting I come, flouting I come...") Robert E. Howard Poem
250 Heritage ("My people came from Munster and rugged Nevis-side...") Robert E. Howard Poem
251 A Song Out of the East Robert E. Howard Poem
252 Dreams of Ninevah Robert E. Howard Poem
252 When Wolf Meets Wolf Robert E. Howard Poem
253 Exhortation Robert E. Howard Poem
253 Illusion Robert E. Howard Poem
254 Adventure ("Adventure, I have followed your beck ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
255 But the Hills Were Ancient Then Robert E. Howard Poem
256 Arcadian Days Robert E. Howard Poem
259 The Adventurer's Mistress ("The scarlet standards of the sun...") Robert E. Howard Poem
261 The Adventurer's Mistress ("The fogs of night fling banners red...") Robert E. Howard Poem
263 Mystic Robert E. Howard Poem
264 Yesterdays Robert E. Howard Poem
265 Zululand Robert E. Howard Poem
266 A Riding Song Robert E. Howard Poem
267 Renunciation Robert E. Howard Poem
268 A Misty Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
269 The Adventurer Robert E. Howard Poem
270 The Gods Remember ("Lost wonders of the ages lie...") Robert E. Howard Poem
271 Men Build Them Houses Robert E. Howard Poem
273 To Lyle Saxon Robert E. Howard Poem
274 Deeps Robert E. Howard Poem
274 High Blue Halls Robert E. Howard Poem
275 The Desert Hawk Robert E. Howard Poem
276 Murky the Night Robert E. Howard Poem
277 The Winds That Walk the World Robert E. Howard Poem
279 And There Were Lethal Women Robert E. Howard Poem
279 Sighs in the Yellow Leaves Robert E. Howard Poem
280 Rebellion Robert E. Howard Poem
280 The Plains of Gilban Robert E. Howard Poem
281 A Far Country Robert E. Howard Poem
281 Adventurer Robert E. Howard Poem
282 The Builders ("We reared up Babel's towers... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
283 Earth-Born Robert E. Howard Poem
284 "Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gaelach Buidhe Mar Or" Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Sea-Chant Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Who Is Grandpa Theobold? Robert E. Howard Poem
286 The Song of the Jackal Robert E. Howard Poem
287 The Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
288 A Moment Robert E. Howard Poem
289 Lesbia Robert E. Howard Poem
291 Surrender ("I will rise someday when the day is done...") Robert E. Howard Poem
292 Moonlight and Shadows Barred the Land Robert E. Howard Poem
293 The Mountains of California Robert E. Howard Poem
293 Twilight on Stonehenge Robert E. Howard Poem
294 Hopes of Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
294 Lost Altars Robert E. Howard Poem
295 The Isle of Hy-Brasil Robert E. Howard Poem
296 A Calling to Rome Robert E. Howard Poem
297 The Call of the Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
298 Custom Robert E. Howard Poem
299 The Day That I Die Robert E. Howard Poem
300 Drum Gods Robert E. Howard Poem
301 The Gods of the Jungle Drums Robert E. Howard Poem
302 The Grim Land Robert E. Howard Poem
303 The Heart of the Sea's Desire Robert E. Howard Poem
304 The Hills of Kandahar Robert E. Howard Poem
305 The Road to Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
308 Roar, Silver Trumpets Robert E. Howard Poem
309 A Song Out of Midian Robert E. Howard Poem
310 Scarlet and Gold Are the Stars Tonight Robert E. Howard Poem
311 Easter Island Robert E. Howard Poem
311 The Gods of Easter Island Robert E. Howard Poem
312 Summer Morn Robert E. Howard Poem
312 The Doom Chant of Than-Kul Robert E. Howard Poem
313 Hills of the North! Lavender Hills Robert E. Howard Poem
313 Sonora to Del Rio Robert E. Howard Poem
314 Days of Glory Robert E. Howard Poem
314 When the Gods Were Kings Robert E. Howard Poem
315 Autumn Robert E. Howard Poem
315 Egypt Robert E. Howard Poem
316 The Jackal Robert E. Howard Poem
316 The Wanderer Robert E. Howard Poem
317 The Call of Pan Robert E. Howard Poem
317 Whispers on the Nightwinds Robert E. Howard Poem
318 L'envoi ("Twilight striding o'er the mountain...") Robert E. Howard Poem
318 The Day Breaks Over Simla Robert E. Howard Poem
319 Flaming Marble ("I carved a woman out of marble when...") Robert E. Howard Poem
319 The Ages Stride on Golden Feet Robert E. Howard Poem
320 Desert Dawn Robert E. Howard Poem
320 Monarchs Robert E. Howard Poem
320 The Desert Robert E. Howard Poem
321 Long Ago Robert E. Howard Poem
321 The Land of Mystery Robert E. Howard Poem
322 Ho, Ho, the Long Lights Lift Amain Robert E. Howard Poem
322 The Trail of Gold Robert E. Howard Poem
323 Revolt Pagan Robert E. Howard Poem
323 Sailor Robert E. Howard Poem
324 Nocturne Robert E. Howard Poem
324 The Sea and the Sunrise Robert E. Howard Poem
325 The Outcast Robert E. Howard Poem
325 Tiger Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
326 Keresa, Keresita Robert E. Howard Poem
326 Nun Robert E. Howard Poem
327 King of the Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
327 Orientia Robert E. Howard Poem
328 Chant of the White Beard Robert E. Howard Poem
328 The Campus at Night Robert E. Howard Poem
328 The King of the Ages Comes Robert E. Howard Poem
329 The Gods Remember ("The glories of the ages...") Robert E. Howard Poem
329 The Pirate Robert E. Howard Poem
330 Adventure ("I am the spur that rides men's souls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
330 Roads Robert E. Howard Poem
330 The Sands of the Desert Robert E. Howard Poem
333 The Poets Robert E. Howard Poem
334 Which Will Scarcely Be Understood Robert E. Howard Poem
335 Age Comes to Rabelais Robert E. Howard Poem
336 Another Hymn of Hate Robert E. Howard Poem
337 Edgar Guest Robert E. Howard Poem
337 Longfellow Revised Robert E. Howard Poem
338 Shadow of Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
339 Dreaming Robert E. Howard Poem
339 Musings ("The little poets sing of little things ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
340 A Haunting Cadence Fills the Night with Fierce Longing Robert E. Howard Poem
341 The Primal Urge Robert E. Howard Poem
342 Eternity Robert E. Howard Poem
342 Laughter Robert E. Howard Poem
343 Invective Robert E. Howard Poem
343 The Lies Robert E. Howard Poem
344 The Bride of Cuchulain Robert E. Howard Poem
345 Memories ("Shall we remember, friend of the morning...") Robert E. Howard Poem
345 The Actor Robert E. Howard Poem
346 Echoes from an Anvil Robert E. Howard Poem
347 The Ladder of Life Robert E. Howard Poem
348 A Hairy Chested Idealist Sings Robert E. Howard Poem
349 I'm More than a Man and Less than a God Robert E. Howard Poem
350 Let Me Live As I Was Born to Live Robert E. Howard Poem
351 Love's Young Dream Robert E. Howard Poem
352 Little Brown Man of Nippon (Second Version) Robert E. Howard Poem
354 Authorial Version of Duna Robert E. Howard Poem
355 Rebel Souls from the Falling Dark Robert E. Howard Poem
355 The Ecstasy of Desolation Robert E. Howard Poem
356 To Moderns Robert E. Howard Poem
357 The Road to Freedom Robert E. Howard Poem
358 Mankind Robert E. Howard Poem
360 The Guise of Youth Robert E. Howard Poem
361 Futility ("Time races on and none can stay the tread...") Robert E. Howard Poem
362 I Tell You This, My Friend Robert E. Howard Poem
362 These Things Are Gods Robert E. Howard Poem
363 Harvest Robert E. Howard Poem
363 The Road to Yesterday Robert E. Howard Poem
364 Mine But to Serve Robert E. Howard Poem
367 Skulls Robert E. Howard Poem
368 Singing in the Wind Robert E. Howard Poem
369 Ambition Robert E. Howard Poem
370 Castaway Robert E. Howard Poem
371 Nights to Both of Us Known Robert E. Howard Poem
372 Mingle My Dust with the Burning Brand Robert E. Howard Poem
372 When I Was a Youth Robert E. Howard Poem
373 A Stirring of Green Leaves Robert E. Howard Poem
373 Destiny ("I am a white trail...") Robert E. Howard Poem
373 Only a Shadow on the Grass Robert E. Howard Poem
374 The Rulers Robert E. Howard Poem
376 Prude Robert E. Howard Poem
376 The Sands of Time Robert E. Howard Poem
377 Sacrifice Robert E. Howard Poem
378 Mark of the Beast Robert E. Howard Poem
379 Little Bell of Brass Robert E. Howard Poem
379 The Drums of Pictdom Robert E. Howard Poem
380 For Man Was Given the Earth to Rule Robert E. Howard Poem
381 Symbols Robert E. Howard Poem
382 My Sentiments Set to Jazz Robert E. Howard Poem
383 Never Beyond the Beast Robert E. Howard Poem
384 The Myth Robert E. Howard Poem
385 Untamed Avatars Robert E. Howard Poem
386 Match a Toad with a Far-Winged Hawk Robert E. Howard Poem
387 That Women May Sing of Us Robert E. Howard Poem
388 A Song of Defeat Robert E. Howard Poem
389 A Song for All Women Robert E. Howard Poem
389 Prelude Robert E. Howard Poem
390 Shadows of Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
393 The Dreams of Men Robert E. Howard Poem
393 The Twin Gates Robert E. Howard Poem
394 To a Woman ("Ages ago I came to woo...") Robert E. Howard Poem
395 To a Woman (Draft) ("Ages ago I came to woo...) Robert E. Howard Poem
397 This Is a Young World Robert E. Howard Poem
398 After the Trumps Are Sounded Robert E. Howard Poem
398 To Certain Orthodox Brethren Robert E. Howard Poem
399 Heritage ("Saxon blood in the veins of me...") Robert E. Howard Poem
400 Ballade Robert E. Howard Poem
400 Dreamer Robert E. Howard Poem
401 Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die Robert E. Howard Poem
402 To All Sophisticates Robert E. Howard Poem
403 Musings ("To every man his trade...") Robert E. Howard Poem
404 One Blood Strain Robert E. Howard Poem
404 Perspective Robert E. Howard Poem
405 The Sea Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
406 Shadows from Yesterday Robert E. Howard Poem
407 A Hundred Years the Great War Raged Robert E. Howard Poem
408 The Tall Man Answered Robert E. Howard Poem
409 The Tall Man Rose and Said Robert E. Howard Poem
410 The Tall Man Said Robert E. Howard Poem
410 The Wheel of Destiny Robert E. Howard Poem
411 Escape Robert E. Howard Poem
411 The Sea-Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
412 The Years Are As a Knife Robert E. Howard Poem
413 Whispers Robert E. Howard Poem
414 A Song from an Ebony Heart Robert E. Howard Poem
415 Man the Master Robert E. Howard Poem
416 I Do Not Sing of a Paradise Robert E. Howard Poem
416 Ocean-Thoughts Robert E. Howard Poem
417 The Tide Robert E. Howard Poem
418 A Sonnet of Good Cheer Robert E. Howard Poem
419 L'envoi ("Harlots and choir girls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
419 Shadows ("I am that which was, was never...") Robert E. Howard Poem
420 Age Robert E. Howard Poem
420 Freedom Robert E. Howard Poem
421 Tides Robert E. Howard Poem
422 A Warning to Orthodoxy Robert E. Howard Poem
423 There Were Three Lads Who Went Their Destined Ways Robert E. Howard Poem
425 To the Contented Robert E. Howard Poem
425 Toast to the British! Robert E. Howard Poem
426 To a Nameless Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
427 Keep Women, Thrones and Kingly Lands Robert E. Howard Poem
427 The Open Window Robert E. Howard Poem
428 Poet Robert E. Howard Poem
428 The Tempter Robert E. Howard Poem
429 Romany Road Robert E. Howard Poem
430 Parody Robert E. Howard Poem
430 The Gods I Worshipped Robert E. Howard Poem
431 Alien Robert E. Howard Poem
431 The Grey Lover Robert E. Howard Poem
432 And So I Sang Robert E. Howard Poem
432 The End of the Glory Trail Robert E. Howard Poem
433 Today Robert E. Howard Poem
434 Let Us Up in the Hills Together Robert E. Howard Poem
434 Universe Robert E. Howard Poem
435 An Outworn Story Robert E. Howard Poem
436 Native Hell Robert E. Howard Poem
436 They were there, in the distance dreaming Henry Herbert Knibbs Poem
437 Memories ("I rose in the path of a hurtling dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
438 A Man Robert E. Howard Poem
439 A Beggar, Singing Without Robert E. Howard Poem
439 On with the Play Robert E. Howard Poem
440 Love Robert E. Howard Poem
440 Night Mood Robert E. Howard Poem
441 Man Am I Robert E. Howard Poem
442 A Song of College Robert E. Howard Poem
442 The Phases of Life Robert E. Howard Poem
443 Visions Robert E. Howard Poem
443 Was I There? Robert E. Howard Poem
444 Dark Are Your Eyes Robert E. Howard Poem
444 The Spiders of Weariness Come on Me Robert E. Howard Poem
444 Through the Mists of Silence There Came a Sound Robert E. Howard Poem
445 I Hate the Man Who Tells Me That I Lied Robert E. Howard Poem
445 Men Are Toys on a Godlings String Robert E. Howard Poem
446 For What Is a Maid to the Shout of Kings? Robert E. Howard Poem
446 To the Evangelists Robert E. Howard Poem
447 Hope Empty of Meaning Robert E. Howard Poem
447 Surrender ("Open the window and let me go...") Robert E. Howard Poem
448 Desire Robert E. Howard Poem
448 Let the Gods Die Robert E. Howard Poem
449 Artifice Robert E. Howard Poem
449 Destiny? ("What is there real, my girl... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
449 The House of Gael Robert E. Howard Poem
450 I Praise My Nativity Robert E. Howard Poem
450 L'envoi ("Live like a wolf then...") Robert E. Howard Poem
451 Destiny ("I think I was born to pass at dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
451 Life ("About me rise the primal mists...") Robert E. Howard Poem
451 To the Stylists Robert E. Howard Poem
452 A Word from the Outer Dark Robert E. Howard Poem
455 Crusade Robert E. Howard Poem
456 Who Shall Sing of Babylon? Robert E. Howard Poem
458 The Night Winds Robert E. Howard Poem
459 Belshazzar Robert E. Howard Poem
459 Dreaming on Downs Robert E. Howard Poem
460 Passing of the Elder Gods Robert E. Howard Poem
460 The Blood of Belshazzar Robert E. Howard Poem
460 The Broken Walls of Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
461 Kublai Khan Robert E. Howard Poem
461 The Gates of Nineveh Robert E. Howard Poem
462 Two Men Robert E. Howard Poem
463 O the Brave Sea-Rover Robert E. Howard Poem
464 The Path of the Strange Wanderers Robert E. Howard Poem
465 The Cry Everlasting Robert E. Howard Poem
466 Drake Sings of Yesterday Robert E. Howard Poem
468 The Lost San Saba Mine Robert E. Howard Poem
470 Samson's Broodings Robert E. Howard Poem
470 Trail's End Robert E. Howard Poem
471 The Road to Rome Robert E. Howard Poem
472 West Robert E. Howard Poem
473 Empire's Destiny Robert E. Howard Poem
474 Ghost Dancers Robert E. Howard Poem
475 Land of the Pioneer Robert E. Howard Poem
475 Over the Old Rio Grandey Robert E. Howard Poem
476 Flint's Passing Robert E. Howard Poem
477 A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure Robert E. Howard Poem
478 Song of the Pict Robert E. Howard Poem
479 The Road to Bliss Robert E. Howard Poem
480 No More the Serpent Prow Robert E. Howard Poem
481 The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts Robert E. Howard Poem
483 San Jacinto ("Red field of glory...") Robert E. Howard Poem
484 Farewell, Proud Munster Robert E. Howard Poem
485 Dreaming in Israel Robert E. Howard Poem
486 The Peasant on the Euphrates Robert E. Howard Poem
487 Tarantella Robert E. Howard Poem
489 The Master-Drum Robert E. Howard Poem
490 Men of the Shadows Robert E. Howard Poem
491 The Harp of Alfred Robert E. Howard Poem
492 Abe Lincoln Robert E. Howard Poem
493 John Brown Robert E. Howard Poem
493 John Kelley Robert E. Howard Poem
494 John Ringold Robert E. Howard Poem
495 Mihiragula Robert E. Howard Poem
496 A Negro Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
496 When the Glaciers Rumbled South Robert E. Howard Poem
497 A Song of the Anchor Chain Robert E. Howard Poem
498 A Clash of Steel, a Thud of Hoofs Robert E. Howard Poem
499 The Feud Robert E. Howard Poem
499 The King of Trade Robert E. Howard Poem
500 The Gates of Babylon Robert E. Howard Poem
501 The King and the Mallet Robert E. Howard Poem
502 The Sand-Hills' Crest Robert E. Howard Poem
503 The Affair at the Tavern Robert E. Howard Poem
506 Black Michael's Story Robert E. Howard Poem
507 San Jacinto ("Flowers bloom on San Jacinto...") Robert E. Howard Poem
508 The Kiowa's Tale Robert E. Howard Poem
509 Mahomet Robert E. Howard Poem
509 The Follower Robert E. Howard Poem
510 Flight Robert E. Howard Poem
511 Drummings on an Empty Skull Robert E. Howard Poem
512 To an Earth-Bound Soul Robert E. Howard Poem
513 A Song of the Race (Long Version) Robert E. Howard Poem
515 The Times, the Times Stride on Apace and Fast Robert E. Howard Poem
516 A Rhyme of Salem Town Robert E. Howard Poem
519 Early in the Morning I Gazed at the Eastern Skies Robert E. Howard Poem
519 Serpent Robert E. Howard Poem
520 Shadows on the Road Robert E. Howard Poem
521 Ace High Robert E. Howard Poem
522 Attila Rides No More Robert E. Howard Poem
522 Oh, the Road to Glory Lay Robert E. Howard Poem
523 The Sign of the Sickle Robert E. Howard Poem
523 To a Friend Robert E. Howard Poem
524 Romance ("I am king of all the Ages...") Robert E. Howard Poem
524 The East Is Red and I Am Dead Robert E. Howard Poem
525 The Stralsund Robert E. Howard Poem
525 The Tartar Raid Robert E. Howard Poem
526 Riding Song Robert E. Howard Poem
526 Skulls Over Judah Robert E. Howard Poem
527 Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
528 Babylon Robert E. Howard Poem
528 Babylon (Draft) Robert E. Howard Poem
529 Nisapur Robert E. Howard Poem
530 An Incident of the Muscovy-Turkish War Robert E. Howard Poem
530 The Cells of the Coliseum Robert E. Howard Poem
531 The Bandit Robert E. Howard Poem
532 Seven Kings Robert E. Howard Poem
532 The Alamo Robert E. Howard Poem
533 A Dungeon Opens Robert E. Howard Poem
534 The Gladiator and the Lady Robert E. Howard Poem
535 Krakorum Robert E. Howard Poem
535 The Winds of the Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
536 Eric of Norway Robert E. Howard Poem
547 The Bar by the Side of the Road Robert E. Howard Poem
548 Nectar Robert E. Howard Poem
549 Emancipation Robert E. Howard Poem
549 Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
550 Girls Robert E. Howard Poem
550 Prince and Beggar Robert E. Howard Poem
551 Bill Boozy Was a Pirate Bold Robert E. Howard Poem
552 The Odyssey of Israel Robert E. Howard Poem
554 De Ole River Ox Robert E. Howard Poem
555 Young Lockanbars Robert E. Howard Poem
556 Flappers Flicker and Flap and Flirt Robert E. Howard Poem
556 Strange Passion Robert E. Howard Poem
557 L'envoi ("Now flapper ridden flivvers whiz...") Robert E. Howard Poem
558 My Brother He Was an Auctioneer Robert E. Howard Poem
560 Lust Robert E. Howard Poem
561 Modest Bill Robert E. Howard Poem
565 The Baron and the Wench Robert E. Howard Poem
566 A Ballad of Beer Robert E. Howard Poem
567 An American Robert E. Howard Poem
568 The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore Robert E. Howard Poem
571 Libertine Robert E. Howard Poem
571 The Kissing of Sal Snooboo Robert E. Howard Poem
572 A Cringing Woman's Lot Is Hard Robert E. Howard Poem
573 A Song of Greenwich Robert E. Howard Poem
574 Swings and Swings Robert E. Howard Poem
576 Nancy Hawk - a Legend of Virginity Robert E. Howard Poem
581 Now and Then (Incomplete) Robert E. Howard Poem
582 A Pledge Robert E. Howard Poem
583 Repentance Robert E. Howard Poem
584 The Whoopansat of Humorous Kookooyam Robert E. Howard Poem
587 The Chinese Gong Robert E. Howard Poem
588 Ancient English Balladel Robert E. Howard Poem
589 A Fable for Critics Robert E. Howard Poem
592 A Ballad of Insanity Robert E. Howard Poem
592 An American Epic Robert E. Howard Poem
592 The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore Robert E. Howard Poem
593 A Great Man Speaks Robert E. Howard Poem
593 The Harlot Robert E. Howard Poem
594 Ecstasy Robert E. Howard Poem
596 The Ballad of Nell of Singapore Robert E. Howard Poem
597 The Ballad of Nell of Singapore (Draft) Robert E. Howard Poem
599 A Poet's Skull Robert E. Howard Poem
601 Many Fell at the Grog-Shop Wall Robert E. Howard Poem
601 Noah Was My Applesauce Robert E. Howard Poem
602 At the Inn of the Gory Dagger Robert E. Howard Poem
604 The Seven-Up Ballad Robert E. Howard Poem
605 The Cuckoo's Revenge Robert E. Howard Poem
606 A Mick in Israel Robert E. Howard Poem
607 Daughter of Evil Robert E. Howard Poem
608 When Napoleon Down in Africa Robert E. Howard Poem
609 Old Faro Bill Was a Man of Might Robert E. Howard Poem
609 Roses Laughed in Her Pretty Hair Robert E. Howard Poem
610 The Bombing of Gon Fanfew Robert E. Howard Poem
611 Code Robert E. Howard Poem
611 Envoy Robert E. Howard Poem
612 Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
612 Good Mistress Brown Robert E. Howard Poem
613 Cowboy Robert E. Howard Poem
613 Neolithic Love Song Robert E. Howard Poem
613 The Passionate Typist Robert E. Howard Poem
614 A Roman Lady Robert E. Howard Poem
615 The Shades of Night Were Falling Faster Robert E. Howard Poem
615 The Weakling Robert E. Howard Poem
616 Adam's Loins Were Mountains Robert E. Howard Poem
617 Then Stein the Peddler with Rising Joy Robert E. Howard Poem
618 Song of a Fugitive Bard Robert E. Howard Poem
619 A Song of Bards Robert E. Howard Poem
620 Rules of Etiquette Robert E. Howard Poem
620 The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts Robert E. Howard Poem
622 Madam Goose's Rhymes Robert E. Howard Poem
623 Sappho, the Grecian Hills Are Gold Robert E. Howard Poem
623 To a Kind Missionary Woiker Robert E. Howard Poem
624 There's an Isle Far Away on the Breast of the Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
625 Drawers That a Girl Strips Down Her Thighs Robert E. Howard Poem
625 Out in Front of Goldstein's, Over by the Loop Robert E. Howard Poem
625 Romona! Romona! Robert E. Howard Poem
626 The Baron of Fenland Sat at Ease Robert E. Howard Poem
627 And Bill, He Looked at Me and Said Robert E. Howard Poem
628 To a Certain Cultured Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
628 Toper Robert E. Howard Poem
629 How to Select a Successful Evangelist Robert E. Howard Poem
630 A Song of Cheer Robert E. Howard Poem
631 The Rover Robert E. Howard Poem
632 I Hold All Women Are a Gang of Tramps Robert E. Howard Poem
632 I Knocked Upon Her Lattice—Soft! Robert E. Howard Poem
633 Ho Merry Bark, Let's Go Robert E. Howard Poem
633 Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them Robert E. Howard Poem
634 Limericks to Spank By Robert E. Howard Poem
634 The Choir Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
635 By Old Abie Goldstein's Pawn Shop Robert E. Howard Poem
635 King Bahthur's Court / Prologue Robert E. Howard Poem
636 A Chinese Washer, Ching-Ling Robert E. Howard Poem
636 A Young Wife's Tale Robert E. Howard Poem
637 A Sappe Ther Wos and That a Crumbe Manne Robert E. Howard Poem
638 Palm-Trees Are Waving in the Gulf-Breeze Robert E. Howard Poem
639 Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I Name You a Fool Robert E. Howard Poem
639 Take Some Honey from a Cat Robert E. Howard Poem
640 Senor Zorro Robert E. Howard Poem
640 What's Become of Waring Robert E. Howard Poem
641 The Tom Thumb Moider Mystery Robert E. Howard Poem
642 To a Roman Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
643 A Quatrain of Beauty Robert E. Howard Poem
643 The Maiden of Kercheezer Robert E. Howard Poem
644 Love Is Singing Soft and Low Robert E. Howard Poem
644 My Children Robert E. Howard Poem
644 Tell Me Not in Coocoo Numbers Robert E. Howard Poem
645 I Lay in Yen's Opium Joint Robert E. Howard Poem
645 Lines to G. B. Shaw Robert E. Howard Poem
646 The Robes of the Righteous Robert E. Howard Poem
646 There Once Was a Wicked Old Elf Robert E. Howard Poem
647 As You Dance Upon the Air Robert E. Howard Poem
647 Give Ye of My Best Though the Dole Be Meager Robert E. Howard Poem
647 The Song of the Sage Robert E. Howard Poem
648 He Clutched His Penis Tight Robert E. Howard Poem
648 I Call the Muster of Iron Men Robert E. Howard Poem
648 Life Is a Lot of Hooey! Robert E. Howard Poem
648 The Helmsman Gaily, Rode Down the Rickerboo Robert E. Howard Poem
649 A Weird Ballad Robert E. Howard Poem
650 I Am MAN from the Primal, I Robert E. Howard Poem
650 Life Is a Cynical, Romantic Pig Robert E. Howard Poem
650 Lizzen My Children and You Shall Be Told Robert E. Howard Poem
651 What Is Love? Robert E. Howard Poem
652 When I Was in Africa Robert E. Howard Poem
653 A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans Robert E. Howard Poem
653 There Was an Old Dick Whose Name Was Stiff Robert E. Howard Poem
654 Kid Lavigne Is Dead Robert E. Howard Poem
655 "Aw Come on and Fight!" Robert E. Howard Poem
656 The Cooling of Spike McRue Robert E. Howard Poem
657 Fables for Little Folks Robert E. Howard Poem
658 Slugger's Vow Robert E. Howard Poem
658 The Champ Robert E. Howard Poem
659 In the Ring Robert E. Howard Poem
660 And Dempsey Climbed Into the Ring Robert E. Howard Poem
661 They Matched Me Up That Night Robert E. Howard Poem
662 Down the Ages Robert E. Howard Poem
662 John L. Sullivan Robert E. Howard Poem
664 Jack Dempsey Robert E. Howard Poem
664 We Are the Duckers of Crosses Robert E. Howard Poem
665 All the Crowd Robert E. Howard Poem
666 When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham Robert E. Howard Poem
667 Time, the Victor Robert E. Howard Poem
671 Flaming Marble ("This is a dream that comes to me often ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
671 Proem Robert E. Howard Poem
674 Skulls and Orchids Robert E. Howard Poem
679 Medallions in the Moon Robert E. Howard Poem
680 The Gods That Men Forget Robert E. Howard Poem
682 Bloodstones and Ebony Robert E. Howard Poem
687 Notes (The Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard) uncredited Essay
693 Index of Titles uncredited Essay
711 Index of First Lines uncredited Essay
lxxvii Acknowledgements (The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard) uncredited Essay
lxxviii Foreword (The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard) Rob Roehm Essay
xxiv Introduction: Barbarian Bard: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard Steve Eng Essay
[729] Untitled Poem ("All fled—all done...") Robert E. Howard Poem

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The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Cover 2009 The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Hardcover Collection lxxix+728
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Cover 2009 The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Hardcover Collection lxxix+728