The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 (2nd edition) 
The REH Foundation Press
Year :
 May 2023  
Book No. : ISBN-13: 9781955446082 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781955446099 (Trade paperback)
Edition : Version 2
Format : Hardcover with dust jacket  (6.3 x 9.4 inches)
Trade paperback  (6 x 9 inches)
Pages : xxiii plus TBA
Cover art : Mark Wheatley
Illustrations : None

 The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 (2nd edition)


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Edited by Paul Herman


 
Contents (Continued)

SECTION FOUR: NO KNOWN DRAFTS
Introductory Sampling
"Solomon Kane’s Homecoming" (poem)
"Solomon Kane’s Homecoming" (poem, an untitled alternate version)
"Black Harps in the Hills" (poem)
"Black Harps in the Hills" (poem, an untitled, shorter version in a letter)
"The Ghost Kings" (poem)
"Two Men" (poem)
"The Tale the Dead Slaver Told" (poem)
"The Tale the Dead Slaver Told" (poem, an alternate version)
"Not Only in Death They Die" (poem)
Seeking Adventure and Freedom
"Viking’s Vision" (poem)
"Earth-Born" (poem)
"The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer" (poem)
"To a Friend" (poem)
"Drake Sings of Yesterday" (poem)
"Untamed Avatars" (poem)
Fantastical
"The Song of the Gallows Tree" (poem)
"A Dull Sound as of Knocking" (poem)
"The Dweller in Dark Valley" (poem)
"Zukala’s Love Song" (poem)
"The Grey God Passes" (poem, chapter headings)
"A Song of the Werewolf Folk" (poem)
"But the Hills Were Ancient Then" (poem)
"The Palace of Bast" (poem)
"The Doom Chant of Than-Kul" (poem)
"Baal-Pteor" (poem)
"Futility" (1, poem)
"Astarte’s Idol Stands Alone" (poem)
"Memories" (1, poem)
"Fragment" (poem)
"Summer Morn" (poem)
"The Cats of Anubis" (poem)
Historical and Observational
"The Song of the Last Briton" (poem)
"Who Shall Sing of Babylon?" (poem)
"Victory" (poem)
"A Dawn in Flanders" (poem)
"The Cry Everlasting" (poem)
"The Legacy of Tubal-Cain" (poem)
"A Song of the Don Cossacks" (poem)
"A Song of the Legions" (poem)
"Lunacy Chant" (poem)
"These Things are Gods" (poem)
"The Road to Rome" (poem)
"Cossack Dreams" (poem)
"War to the Blind" (poem)
"The Day Breaks over Simla" (poem)
"Custom" (poem)
"The Gates of Babylon" (poem)
"Dreams" (poem)
"Dreams of Nineveh" (poem)
"Drum Gods" (poem)
"The Gods of Easter Island" (poem)
"Sonora to Del Rio" (poem)
"The Sands of the Desert" (poem)
"Ships" (poem)
"Murky the Night" (poem)
"Artifice" (poem)
Humor
"The Weakling" (poem)
"Madam Goose’s Rhymes" (poem)
Naughty 
"The Myth" (poem)
"Ecstasy" (poem)
"A Roman Lady" (poem)
"Strange Passion" (poem)
Darker Moods
"Which Will Scarcely Be Understood" (poem)
"Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die" (poem)
"Hope Empty of Meaning" (poem)
"A Sonnet of Good Cheer" (poem)
"The Wheel of Destiny" (poem)
"The Dust Dance" (1, poem)
"The Dust Dance" (2, poem)
"The Road to Freedom" (poem)
"To Moderns" (poem)
"Echoes from an Anvil" (poem)
"The Lies" (poem)
"Longfellow Revised" (poem)
"To Certain Orthodox Brethren" (poem)
"Man Am I" (poem)
"Empire" (poem)
"To a Kind Missionary Woiker" (poem)
"Let the Gods Die" (poem)
"As You Dance Upon the Air" (poem)
"The Rulers" (poem)
"Native Hell" (poem)
"Escape" (poem)
"Man the Master" (poem)
"The Songs of Defeat" (poem)
SECTION FIVE – YOUTHFUL WRITINGS
Introductory Sampling
"Fables for Little Folks" (poem)
"Farewell, Proud Munster" (poem)
Seeking Adventure and Freedom
"Illusion" (poem)
"The Sea" (poem)
"The Sword of Lal Singh" (poem)
"The Outcast" (poem)
"A High Land" (poem)
"The Pirate" (1, poem)
"The Sword of Yar Ali Khan" (poem)
"The Trail of Gold" (poem)
"Senor Zorro" (poem)
"The Song of Yar Ali Khan" (poem)
"When Men Were Bold" (poem)
Fantastical
"Far in the Gloomy Northland" (poem)
"Am-ra the Ta-an" (poem)
"A Misty Sea" (poem)
"Modest Bill" (poem)
Historical and Observational
"The Bandit" (poem)
"The Rover" (poem)
"Over the Old Rio Grandey" (poem)
"Roundelay of the Roughneck" (poem)
"Private Magrath of the A.E.F." (poem)
"Tarentella" (poem)
"Was I There?" (poem)
"Land of the Pioneer" (poem)
"The Plains of Gilban" (poem)
"Whence Cometh Erlik?" (poem)
"Zulu-Land" (poem)
"The Tartar Raid" (poem)
"The Stralsund" (poem)
"O the Brave Sea-Rover" (poem)
"Krakorum" (poem)
"Eric of Norway" (poem)
Humor
"The Kissing of Sal Snooboo" (poem)
"The Maiden of Kercheezer" (poem)
"My Sentiments, Set to Jazz" (poem)
"Parody on Description of June in “Sir Launfal”" (poem)
"Rules of Etiquette" (poem)
"When I Was in Africa" (poem)
"Edgar Guest" (poem)
"Bill Boozy Was a Pirate Bold" (poem)
"When Napoleon Down in Africa" (poem)
Darker Moods
"Futility" (2, poem)
"Mankind" (poem)
"Now and Then" (poem)
 
Index
Primary Poetry Index
Alternate Title Index
First Line Index



Contents
"The History and Mystery of the Publishing of the Poetry of Robert E. Howard" by Paul Herman (Introduction)
"Foreword" by Paul Herman
Acknowledgements
SECTION THREE: UNTITLED DRAFTS
Introductory Sampling
"The Return of Sir Richard Grenville" (poem)
"Miser’s Gold" (poem)
"The Sand-Hills’ Crest" (poem)
"The One Black Stain" (poem)
"The One Black Stain" (poem, the second draft)
"The One Black Stain" (poem, the first draft)
"Drowned" (poem, an alternate version)
"Drowned" (poem)
"Little Brown Man of Nippon" (poem)
"A Song of the Race" (poem)
"The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts" (poem)
"In the Ring" (poem)
"Destiny" (1, poem)
Seeking Adventure and Freedom
"The Call of the Sea" (poem)
"The Call of Adventure" (poem, incomplete)
"A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure" (poem)
"The Winds That Walk the World" (poem)
"Revolt Pagan" (poem)
"Old Memories of Adventure" (poem)
"I’m More Than a Man" (poem)
"Freedom" (poem)
Fantastical
"The Symbol" (poem)
"The Ghost Ocean" (poem)
"Dance Macabre" (poem)
"Shadows from Yesterday" (poem)
"Cornish Jack" (poem)
"Mad Meg Gill" (poem)
"Ju-Ju Doom" (poem)
"All Hallows Eve" (poem)
"All Hallows Eve" (poem, an earlier draft)
"The Phantoms Gather" (poem)
"Mystic Lore" (poem)
"Counterspells" (poem)
"Prince and Beggar" (poem)
"Shadow Thing" (poem)
"The Worshippers" (poem)
"When the Gods Were Kings" (poem)
"The Master-Drum" (poem)
"Death’s Black Riders " (poem, story heading)
"The Bell of Morni" (poem)
"The Shadow of the Beast" (poem, story heading)
"As I Rode Down to Lincoln Town" (poem)
"Egypt" (poem)
"Baal" (poem)
"Seven Kings" (poem)
"Seven Kings" (poem. an earlier draft)
"The Drums of Pictdom" (poem)
"Abhorrent Gods" (poem)
Historical and Observational
"A Song of the Naked Lands" (poem)
"A Song of the Naked Lands" (poem, the first page of an earlier draft)
"The Feud" (poem)
"Memories of Alfred" (poem)
"A Legend of Faring Town" (poem)
"The Road to Bliss" (poem)
"Alien" (poem)
"The Song of Horsa’s Galley" (poem)
"No Man’s Land" (poem)
"To Harry the Oliad Men" (poem)
"A Rhyme of Salem Town" (poem)
"Where are Your Knights, Donn Othna?" (poem)
"The Zulu Lord" (poem)
"Rattle of Drums" (poem)
"Lost Nisapur" (poem)
"Babylon" (poem)
"Babylon" (poem, an alternate version)
"The Baron and the Wench" (poem)
"Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls" (poem)
"Down the Ages" (poem)
"The Affair at the Tavern" (poem)
"The Chief of the Matabeles" (poem)  
"No More the Serpent Prow" (poem)
"When the Glaciers Rumbled South" (poem)
"The Guise of Youth" (poem)
"The Cells of the Coliseum" (poem)
"Days of Glory" (poem)
"When Death Drops Her Veil" (poem)
"A Thousand Years Ago" (poem)
"The Drum" (poem)
"Roar, Silver Trumpets" (poem)
"The Winds of the Sea" (16 line version, poem)
"The Night Winds" (poem)
"The Broken Walls of Babel" (poem)
"The Ballad of King Geraint" (poem)
"The Ages Stride on Golden Feet" (poem)
"The King of the Ages Comes" (poem)
"The Gods I Worshipped" (poem)
"Nocturne" (poem)
"Devon Oak" (poem)
"A Calling to Rome" (poem)
"Sea-Chant" (poem)
"De Ole River Ox" (poem)
"The Wind Blows" (1, poem)
"The Wind Blows" (2, poem, an alternate version)
"Trail’s End" (poem)
"A Song of Bards" (poem)
"The Oaks" (poem)
"The Land of Mystery" (poem, story heading)
"The Majestic Mary L." (poem)
"Exhortation" (poem)
"Universe" (poem)   
"Passing of the Elder Gods"(poem)  
" The Desert" (poem)  
"The Masque" (poem)  
"Mahomet" (poem)  
"The Actor" (poem)  
"The King of Trade" (poem)  
"For What Is a Maid to the Shout of Kings?" (poem)  
"Fill Up My Goblet" (poem)  
"Brazen Thewed Giant" (poem)  
Humor
"Another Hymn of Hate" (poem)
"Code" (poem)
"A Pledge" (poem)
"The Phases of Life" (poem)
Naughty
"Prelude" (poem)
"Desire" (poem)
"Good Mistress Brown" (poem)
"The Harlot" (poem)
"Perspective" (poem)
Darker Moods
"Mine But to Serve" (poem)
"Never Beyond the Beast" (poem)
"The House of Gael" (poem)
"The Champ" (poem)
"Invective" (poem)
"Only a Shadow on the Grass" (poem)
"Little Bell of Brass" (poem)
"Harvest" (poem)
"The Ladder of Life" (poem)
"The Primal Urge" (poem)
"An Outworn Story" (poem)
"On with the Play" (poem)
"The Years Are as a Knife" (poem)
"Time, the Victor" (poem)