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Futility ("Golden goats on a hillside black ...")

Robert E. Howard

First published November 1937
Type Poem

First published in Weird Tales, November 1937.
Sometimes referred to as version 1 of the 2 poems with this title written by Howard.
Nearly identical to Howard's poem "Moonlight on a Skull", with only a handful of word changes.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1937 Cover Weird Tales, November 1937 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 631
1947 Cover Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Arkham House Anthology 370
1947 Cover Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Arkham House Anthology 370
1957 Cover Always Comes Evening: The Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard Arkham House Collection 11
1963 Cover The Howard Collector, #4 Summer 1963 Glenn Lord FANZINE 24
1969 Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Books for Libraries Press Anthology 370
1975 Cover Rhymes of Death Dennis McHaney Collection 26
1975 Cover Rhymes of Death Dennis McHaney Collection 26
June 1977 Cover Always Comes Evening Underwood-Miller Collection 42
June 1977 Cover Always Comes Evening Underwood-Miller Collection 42
March 1987 Cover Chants de guerre et de mort Néo Collection 58
March 1987 Cover Chants de guerre et de mort Néo Collection 59
April 1988 Cover Chants de guerre et de mort Néo Collection 55
April 1988 Cover Chants de guerre et de mort Néo Collection 54
March 2006 Cover The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: August 1934-September 1954 Girasol Collectables Collection 472
March 2006 Cover The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: August 1934-September 1954 Girasol Collectables Collection 472
March 2006 Cover The Midtown Trestler Special, #2 March 2006 Tom Foster FANZINE [7]
2009 Cover Black Hounds of Death Wildside Press Collection 187
January 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 165
April 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 165
August 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 165
March 2010 Cover The Singer in the Mist & Others Stanza Press Collection 22
July 2011 Cover Black Hounds of Death Wildside Press Collection |12
July 2015 Cover Black Hounds of Death Wildside Press Collection
2019 Weird Tales (disc 4, part 1) Anthology 631|43005631