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Echoes from an Iron Harp

Robert E. Howard

First published 1972
Series Robert E. Howard - Poetry Collections
Publisher Donald M. Grant
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Alicia Austin
Pages 109
Price $6.00


1079 copies printed.
Austin's artwork includes a full-color frontispiece and 10 black-and-white illustrations.
All of the poems from p. 103 to the end are under the title "Headings". They are poems from the beginning of Howard stories.

Year Reviewer Publication
1972 L. Sprague de Camp Amra V2n56, June 1972
1972 Charlie Brown Locus, #128 December 1, 1972
1974 John Bredon Cross Plains V1n5, Fall 1974

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Introduction (Echoes from an Iron Harp) Glenn Lord Essay
13 Age Comes to Rabelais Robert E. Howard Poem
14 Belshazzar Robert E. Howard Poem
17 But the Hills Were Ancient Then Robert E. Howard Poem
18 Cimmeria Robert E. Howard Poem
19 A Dawn in Flanders Robert E. Howard Poem
20 The Day That I Die Robert E. Howard Poem
22 Dreams of Ninevah Robert E. Howard Poem
25 The Dust Dance (1, "For I, with the shape of my kin...") Robert E. Howard Poem
28 The Dust Dance ("The sin and jest of the times am I...") Robert E. Howard Poem
31 The Dweller in Dark Valley Robert E. Howard Poem
32 Earth-Born Robert E. Howard Poem
35 Fables for Little Folks Robert E. Howard Poem
36 "Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gaelach Buidhe Mar Or" Robert E. Howard Poem
40 Futility ("Time races on and none can stay the tread...") Robert E. Howard Poem
41 Heritage ("My people came from Munster and rugged Nevis-side...") Robert E. Howard Poem
43 Illusion Robert E. Howard Poem
44 John Ringold Robert E. Howard Poem
45 Kid Lavigne Is Dead Robert E. Howard Poem
46 The Kissing of Sal Snooboo Robert E. Howard Poem
49 A Lady's Chamber Robert E. Howard Poem
50 The Last Day Robert E. Howard Poem
51 Lost Altars Robert E. Howard Poem
52 Memories ("I rose in the path of a hurtling dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
54 A Moment Robert E. Howard Poem
55 Moonlight on a Skull Robert E. Howard Poem
56 Not Only in Death They Die Robert E. Howard Poem
57 Private Magrath of the A. E. F. Robert E. Howard Poem
61 Reuben's Brethren Robert E. Howard Poem
62 Roundelay of the Roughneck Robert E. Howard Poem
65 The Sands of Time Robert E. Howard Poem
66 The Sea Robert E. Howard Poem
68 The Skull in the Clouds Robert E. Howard Poem
71 Skulls and Dust Robert E. Howard Poem
72 Skulls Over Judah Robert E. Howard Poem
75 Slumber Robert E. Howard Poem
76 A Song of Defeat Robert E. Howard Poem
77 The Song of Horsa's Galley Robert E. Howard Poem
78 A Song of the Legions Robert E. Howard Poem
82 A Song for Men That Laugh Robert E. Howard Poem
83 A Sonnet of Good Cheer Robert E. Howard Poem
84 Sonora to Del Rio Robert E. Howard Poem
85 Surrender ("I will rise someday when the day is done...") Robert E. Howard Poem
87 Tarantella Robert E. Howard Poem
89 Thor's Son Robert E. Howard Poem
91 Timur-Lang Robert E. Howard Poem
94 To Certain Orthodox Brethren Robert E. Howard Poem
95 A Vision Robert E. Howard Poem
96 A Warning ("I come in the wail of the broken skies ... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
98 Where Are Your Knights, Donn Othna? Robert E. Howard Poem
100 Who Is Grandpa Theobold? Robert E. Howard Poem
101 The Years Are As a Knife Robert E. Howard Poem
103 The Black Stone Robert E. Howard Poem
103 The Blood of Belshazzar Robert E. Howard Poem
104 Death's Black Riders Robert E. Howard Poem
104 The Fearsome Touch of Death Robert E. Howard Poem
105 Conn's Saga Robert E. Howard Poem
105 The Grey God Passes Robert E. Howard Poem
105 The Hour of the Dragon Robert E. Howard Poem
106 Kelly the Conjure-Man Robert E. Howard Poem
106 Something About Eve Robert E. Howard Poem
106 The Lion of Tiberias Robert E. Howard Poem
109 The Sowers of the Thunder Robert E. Howard Poem
109 The Thing on the Roof Robert E. Howard Poem