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An Echo from the Iron Harp

Robert E. Howard

First published 1999
Type Poem

First published in The Ultimate Triumph, Wandering Star, 1999.
This poem is very similar to another Howard poem, "The Gold and the Grey". "Echo" has one additional line: "And the raven came and the lean grey wolf, to follow the sword's red play". Word differences include "Appian Gate" in "Echo" vs. "Roman Gate" in "Gold", and "mist" in "Echo" vs. "fog" in "Gold" among others.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1999 Cover The Ultimate Triumph: The Heroic Fantasy of Robert E Howard Wandering Star Collection 254
1999 Cover The Ultimate Triumph: The Heroic Fantasy of Robert E Howard Wandering Star Collection 254
1999 Cover The Ultimate Triumph: The Heroic Fantasy of Robert E Howard Wandering Star Collection 254
August 2007 Cover The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1: Crimson Shadows Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 213
August 2009 Cover Crimson Shadows: The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One Subterranean Press Collection 213
August 2009 Cover Crimson Shadows: The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One Subterranean Press Collection 213
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 190
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 190
2011 Cover The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Fall 2011 The Robert E. Howard Foundation FANZINE 9
December 2014 Cover Swords of the North The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 111
2018 Cover The Gods of Easter Island and Other Poems Fedogan & Bremer Collection |24