Author:Robert Ervin Howard/Poetry


 * 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 ..."