The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard
Heroic Verse
War Poems
Wizardry & Satanism
Horror Poems
Exoticism & Nature
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Contents
Horror Poems (62)
"A Lady’s Chamber"
"Death’s Black Riders"
"Dead Man’s Hate"
"Hymn of Hatred"
"An Open Window"
"Black Dawn"
    Shadows (1)
    Clouds   
    Shrines
    The Iron Harp
    Invocation

"The Tale the Dead Slaver Told"
"Up John Kane!"
"The Bell of Morni"
"Cornish Jack"
"The Fearsome Touch of Death"
"The Song of the Gallows Tree"
"The Black Stone"
"All Hallows Eve"
"Against the blood red moon a tower stands"
"A Vision"
"At the Bazaar"
"The Phantoms Gather"
"A Legend of Faring Town"
"The Ghost Ocean"
"The Skull of Silence"
"The Zulu Lord"  
"Dance Macabre"
"Buccaneer Treasure"
"Ivory in the Night"
"Arkham"
"Fragment"
"The Dancer"
"The Dweller in Dark Valley"
"Drowned"
"As I Rode down to Lincoln Town"
"The Last Words He Heard"
"The Hour of the Dragon"
"Shadow Thing"   
"The Fear that Follows"
"Moon Mockery"
"One Who Comes at Eventide" 
"Black Seas"
"The Ghost Kings"
"The Oaks"
"Not Only in Death They Die"
"Recompense"
"Secrets"
"The Thing on the Roof"
"Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls"
"Miser’s Gold"
"A Dull Sound as of Knocking"  
"The Rhyme of the Three Slavers"
"The Pool of the Black One"
"A Pirate Remembers"
"Devon Oak"
"To a Woman (2)"
"A Song of the Werewolf Folk"  
"Song at Midnight"
"Shadows (2)"
"Swamp Murder"
"The Moor Ghost"
"Far in the Gloomy Northland"
"The House in the Oaks"
"The Tavern"
"Sonnets Out of Bedlam"
    The Singer in the Mist   
    The Dream and the Shadow
    The Soul-Eater
    Haunting Columns
    The Last Hour

"Voices of the Night"
    The Voices Waken Memory
    Babel
    Laughter in the Gulfs
    Moon Shame
    A Crown for a King


Exoticism & Nature (109)
"Cimmeria"
"Slumber"
"Long Ago (2)"
"Crete"
"Romance (2)"
"Heritage (1)"
"A Song out of the East"
"Dreams of Nineveh"
"When Wolf Meets Wolf"
"Exhortation"
"Illusion"
"Adventure (1)"
"But the Hills Were Ancient Then"
"Arcadian Days"
"The Adventurer’s Mistress (1)"
"The Adventurer’s Mistress (2)"
"Mystic"   
"Yesterdays"
"Zululand"
"A Riding Song"
"Renunciation"
"A Misty Sea"
"The Adventurer"
"The Gods Remember (1)"
"Men Build Them Houses"
"To Lyle Saxon"
"Deeps"
"High Blue Halls"
"The Desert Hawk"
"Murky the night"
"The Winds That Walk the World"
"And there were lethal women"
"Sighs in the Yellow Leaves"
"The Plains of Gilban"
"Rebellion"
"Adventurer"
"A Far Country"
"The Builders" (1) (first complete publication)
"Earth-Born"
"“Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or”"  
"Sea-Chant"
"Who Is Grandpa Theobold?"
"The Song of the Jackal"
"The Sea"
"A Moment"
"Lesbia"
"Surrender (1)"
"Moonlight and shadows barred the land"
"Twilight on Stonehenge"
"The Mountains of California"
"Lost Altars"
"Hopes of Dreams"
"The Isle of Hy-Brasil"
"A Calling to Rome"
"The Call of the Sea"
"Custom"
"The Day That I Die"
"Drum Gods"
"The Gods of the Jungle Drums"
"The Grim Land"
"The Heart of the Sea’s Desire" 
"The Hills of Kandahar" 
"The Road to Babel"
"Roar, Silver Trumpets" 
"A Song out of Midian"
"Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight"
"The Gods of Easter Island"
"Easter Island"
"Summer Morn"
"The Doom Chant of Than-Kul"
"Sonora to Del Rio"
"Hills of the North! Lavender hills"
"When the Gods Were Kings"
"Days of Glory"
"Egypt"
"Autumn"
"The Jackal"
"The Wanderer"
"Whispers on the Nightwinds"
"The Call of Pan"
"The Day Breaks over Simla"
"L’envoi (3)"
"The Ages Stride on Golden Feet"
"Flaming Marble"
"The Desert"
"Desert Dawn"
"Monarchs"
"Long Ago (1)"
"The Land of Mystery"
"Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain"
"The Trail of Gold"
"Revolt Pagan"
"Sailor"
"The Sea and the Sunrise"
"Nocturne"
"Tiger Girl"
"The Outcast"
"Nun"
"Keresa, Keresita"
"Orientia"
"King of the Sea"
"Chant of the White Beard"
"The Campus at Midnight"
"The King of the Ages Comes"
"The Gods Remember (2)"
"The Pirate"
"The Sands of the Desert"
"Adventure (2)"
"Roads"

Contents
Personal (158)
"The Poets"
"Which Will Scarcely Be Understood"
"Age Comes to Rabelais"
"Another Hymn of Hate"
"Edgar Guest"
"Longfellow Revised"
"Shadow of Dreams"
"Musings (1)"
"Dreaming"
"A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing"
"The Primal Urge"
"Laughter"
"Eternity"
"The Lies"
"Invective"
"The Bride of Cuchulain"
"Memories (2)"
"The Actor"
"Echoes from an Anvil"
"The Ladder of Life"
"A Hairy Chested Idealist Sings"
"I’m More than a Man and Less than a God"
"Let me live as I was born to live"
"Love’s Young Dream"
"Little Brown Man of Nippon"
"Authorial Version of Duna"
"The Ecstasy of Desolation"
"Rebel souls from the falling dark"
"To Moderns"
"The Road to Freedom"
"Mankind"
"The Guise of Youth"
"Futility (2)"
"These Things Are Gods"
"I tell you this, my friend"
" The Road to Yesterday"
"Harvest"
"Mine but to Serve"
"Skulls"
"Singing in the Wind"
"Ambition"
"Castaway"
"Nights to Both of Us Known"
"When I Was a Youth"
"Mingle my dust with the burning brand"
"A Stirring of Green Leaves"
"Only a Shadow on the Grass"
"Destiny (3)"
"The Rulers"
"The Sands of Time"
"Prude"
"Sacrifice"
"Mark of the Beast"
"Little Bell of Brass"
"The Drums of Pictdom"
"For Man Was Given the Earth to Rule"
"Symbols"
"My Sentiments Set to Jazz"
"Never Beyond the Beast"
"The Myth"
"Untamed Avatars"
"Match a toad with a far-winged hawk"
"That Women May Sing of Us"
" A Song of Defeat"
"Prelude"
"A Song for All Women"
"Shadows of Dreams"
"The Dreams of Men"
"The Twin Gates"
"To a Woman (1)"
"To a Woman (1)" (Draft)
"This is a young world"
"After the trumps are sounded"
"To Certain Orthodox Brethren"
"Heritage (2)"
"Ballade"
"Dreamer"
"Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die"
"To All Sophisticates"
"Musings (2)"
"One Blood Strain"
"Perspective"
"The Sea Girl"
"Shadows from Yesterday"
"A hundred years the great war raged"
"The tall man answered"
"The tall man rose and said"
"The tall man said"
"The Wheel of Destiny"
"The Sea-Woman"
"Escape"
"The Years Are as a Knife"
"Whispers"
"A Song from an Ebony Heart"
"Man the Master"
"I do not sing of a paradise"
"Ocean-Thoughts"
"The Tide"
"A Sonnet of Good Cheer"
"Shadows (3)"
"L’envoi (2)"
"Age"
"Freedom"
"The world goes back to the primitive, yea"
"Tides"
"A Warning to Orthodoxy"
"There were three lads who went their destined ways"
"To the Contented"
"Toast to the British!"
"To a Nameless Woman"
"Keep women, thrones and kingly lands"
"The Open Window"
"Poet"
"The Tempter"
"Romany Road"
"Parody"
"The Gods I Worshipped"
"Alien"
"The Grey Lover"
"And So I Sang"
"The End of the Glory Trail"
"Today"
"Universe"
"Let us up in the hills together"
"An Outworn Story"
"Native Hell"
"They were there, in the distance dreaming"
"Memories (1)"
"A Man"
"On with the Play"
"A beggar, singing without"
"Night Mood"
"Love"
"Man Am I"
"The Phases of Life"
"A Song of College"
"Was I There?"
"Visions"
"Through the mists of silence there came a sound"
"The spiders of weariness come on me"
"Dark are your eyes"
"I hate the man who tells me that I lied"
"Men are toys on a godling’s string"
"For what is a maid to the shout of kings?"
"To the Evangelists"
"Surrender (2)"
"Hope Empty of Meaning"
"Let the Gods Die"
"Desire"
"Destiny (2)"
"Artifice"
"The House of Gael"
"I Praise My Nativity"
"L’envoi (1)"
"Destiny (1)"
"To the Stylists"
"Life (1)"
"A Word from the Outer Dark"