The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard
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Historical (93)
"Crusade"
"Who Shall Sing of Babylon?"
"The Night Winds"
"Dreaming on Downs"
"Belshazzar"
"The Blood of Belshazzar"
"The Broken Walls of Babel"
"Passing of the Elder Gods"
"Kublai Khan"
"The Gates of Nineveh"
"Two Men"
"O the Brave Sea-Rover"
"The Path of the Strange Wanderers"
"The Cry Everlasting"
"Drake Sings of Yesterday"
"The Lost San Saba Mine"
"Samson’s Broodings"
"Trail’s End"
"The Road to Rome"
"West"
"Out of Asia the tribesmen came"
"Empire’s Destiny"
"Ghost Dancers"
"Over the Old Rio Grandey"
"Land of the Pioneer"
"Flint’s Passing"
"A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure"
"Song of the Pict"
"The Road to Bliss"
"No More the Serpent Prow"
"The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts"
"San Jacinto (2)"
"Farewell, Proud Munster"
"Dreaming in Israel"
"The Peasant on the Euphrates"
"Tarantella"
"The Master-Drum"
"Men of the Shadows"
"The Harp of Alfred"
"Abe Lincoln"
"John Brown"
"John Kelley"
"John Ringold"
"Mihiragula"
"A Negro Girl"
"When the Glaciers Rumbled South"
"A Song of the Anchor Chain"
"A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs"
"The Feud"
"The King of Trade"
"The Gates of Babylon"
"The King and the Mallet"
"The Sand-Hills’ Crest"
"The Affair at the Tavern"
"Black Michael’s Story"
"San Jacinto (1)"
"The Kiowa’s Tale"
"Mahomet"
"The Follower"
"Flight"
"Drummings on an Empty Skull"
"To an Earth-Bound Soul"
"A Song of the Race"
"The times, the times stride on apace and fast"
"A Rhyme of Salem Town"
"Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies"
"Serpent"
"Shadows on the Road"
"Ace High"
"Attila Rides No More"
"Oh, the road to glory lay"
"To a Friend"
"The Sign of the Sickle"
"Romance (1)"
"The east is red and I am dead"
"The Stralsund"
"The Tartar Raid"
"Skulls over Judah"
"Riding Song"
" Dreams"
"Babylon"
"Babylon (Draft)"
"Nisapur"
"An Incident of the Muscovy-Turkish War"
"The Cells of the Coliseum"
"The Bandit"
"The Alamo"
"Seven Kings"
"A Dungeon Opens"
"The Gladiator and the Lady"
"The Winds of the Sea" (16 line version)
"Krakorum"
" Eric of Norway"

Prose Poems (6)
"Proem"
"Flaming Marble"
"Skulls and Orchids"
"Medallions in the Moon"
"The Gods that Men Forget"
"Bloodstones and Ebony"































Contents
Dialect & Doggerel (141)
"The Bar by the Side of the Road"
"Nectar"
"Emancipation"
"Girl"
"Girls"
"Prince and Beggar"
"Bill Boozy was a pirate bold"
"The Odyssey of Israel"
"De Ole River Ox"
"Young Lockanbars"
"Flappers flicker and flap and flirt"
"Strange Passion"
"L’Envoi (4)"
"My brother he was a auctioneer"
"Lust"
"Modest Bill"
"The Baron and the Wench"
"A Ballad of Beer"
"An American"
"The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore"
"Libertine"
"The Kissing of Sal Snooboo"
"A cringing woman’s lot is hard"
"A Song of Greenwich"
"Swings and Swings"
"Nancy Hawk - A Legend of Virginity"
"Now and Then"
"A Pledge"
"Repentance"
"The Whoopansat of Humorous Kookooyam"
"The Chinese Gong"
"Ancient English Balladel"
"A Fable for Critics"
"An American Epic"
"A Ballad of Insanity"
"The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore"
"A Great Man Speaks"
"The Harlot"
"Ecstasy"
"The Ballad of Nell of Singapore"
"The Ballad of Nell of Singapore" (Draft)
"A Poet’s Skull"
"Many fell at the grog-shop wall"
"Noah was my applesauce"
"At the Inn of the Gory Dagger"
" The Seven-Up Ballad"
"The Cuckoo’s Revenge"
"A Mick in Israel"
"Daughter of Evil"
"When Napoleon down in Africa"
"Roses laughed in her pretty hair"
"Old Faro Bill was a man of might"
"The Bombing of Gon Fanfew"   
"Envoy"
"Code"
"Good Mistress Brown"
"Dancer" 
"The Passionate Typist"
"Neolithic Love Song"
"Cowboy"
"A Roman Lady"
"The Weakling"
"The shades of night were falling faster"
"Adam’s loins were mountains"
"Then Stein the peddler with rising joy"
"Song of a Fugitive Bard"
"A Song of Bards"
"The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts"
"Rules of Etiquette"
"Madam Goose’s Rhymes"
"To a Kind Missionary Woiker"
"Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold"
"There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea"
"Romona! Romona!"
"Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs"
"Out in front of Goldstein’s, over by the Loop"
"The Baron of Fenland sat at ease"
"And Bill, he looked at me and said"
"Toper"
"To a Certain Cultured Woman"
"How to Select a Successful Evangelist"
"A Song of Cheer"
"The Rover"
"I hold all women are a gang of tramps"
"I knocked upon her lattice – soft!"
"Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them"
"Ho merry bark, let’s go"
"Limericks to Spank by"
"The Choir Girl "
"King Bahthur’s Court"
"By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop"
"A Chinese washer, Ching-Ling"
" A Young Wife’s Tale"
"A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne"
"Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze"
"Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool"
"Take some honey from a cat"
"What’s become of Waring"
"Senor Zorro"
"The Tom Thumb Moider Mystery"
"To a Roman Woman"
"The Maiden of Kercheezer"
"A Quatrain of Beauty"
"My Children"
"Tell me not in coocoo numbers"
"Love is singing soft and low"
"Lines to G. B. Shaw"
"I lay in Yen’s opium joint"
"The Robes of the Righteous"
"There once was a wicked old elf"
"The Song of the Sage"
"As you dance upon the air"
"Give ye of my best though the dole be meager"
"The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo"
"Life is a lot of hooey!"
"I call the muster of iron men"
"He clutched his penis tight"
"A Weird Ballad"
"Life is a cynical, romantic pig"   
"Lizzen my children and you shall be told"
"I am MAN from the primal, I"   
"What Is Love?"
"When I Was in Africa"
"There was an old dick whose name was Stiff"
"A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans"
"Kid Lavigne Is Dead"
"“Aw Come on and Fight!”"
"The Cooling of Spike McRue"
"Fables for Little Folks"
"The Champ"
"Slugger’s Vow"
"In the Ring"
"And Dempsey climbed into the ring"
"They matched me up that night"
"Down the Ages"
"John L. Sullivan"
"Jack Dempsey" 
"We are the duckers of crosses"
"All the crowd"
"When you Were a Set-up and I Was a Ham"
"Time, the Victor"