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XVI. Short Measures of Joy &
The Awesome Beauty of Nature
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"The ages stride on
golden feet"
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"The Call of Pan"
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"Earthborn"
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"The Gods I Worshipped"
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"Hope Empty of Meaning"
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"Illusion"
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"A Moment"
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"This is a young world"
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XVII. The Soothing Dust: Poems on Suicide
and the Subject of Death |
"Ambition"
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"The Dance With Death"
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"Lines Written in the Realization
that I Must Die"
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"Mingle my dust with the burning
brand"
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"An Outworn Story"
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"Romany Road"
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"The Sands of Time"
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"Surrender" [ Version 2]
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"The Tempter"
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"The Years Are as a Knife"
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XVIII. Transience,
Mutability, Carpe Diem & Ubi Sunt
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"Age" [To the Old Men]
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"Ballade"
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"Destiny"
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"Dreams of Nineveh"
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"Empire’s Destiny"
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"For what is a maid to the shout
of kings"
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"Futility"
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"The Gates of Nineveh"
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"The Mountains of California"
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"The Night Winds"
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"O Babylon, Lost Babylon"
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"Only a Shadow on the Grass"
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"Path of the Strange Wanders"
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"Roar, Silver Trumpets"
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"Timur-Lang"
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"Where are your Knights, Don Othna"
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XIX. Ballads
& Other Narratives
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"The Affair at the Tavern"
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"—And Bill, he looked at me and
said"
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"A Legend of Faring Town"
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"Miser’s Gold"
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"The Open Window"
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"The Outcast"
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"Rebel"
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"The Baron and the Wench"
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"Swamp Murder"
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"Swords glimmered up the pass"
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"The Witch"
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XX. Poems from Biblical & Hebrew Sources
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"Flight"
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"Lilith"
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"Skulls Over Judah"
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"Two Men"
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XXI. Boxing
Ballads: Poems About Pugilism
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"All the crowd"
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"And Dempsey Climbed into the Ring
and the Crowd Sneered"
Note: Table of Contents says "And Dempsey Climbed into the
Ring and Sneered"
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"Aw, Come on and Fight"
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"The Champ"
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"The Cooling of Spike McRue"
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"Fables for Little Folks"
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"In the Ring"
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"Jack Dempsey"
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"John L. Sullivan"
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"Kid Lavigne is Dead"
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"They matched me up that night"
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"Time, the Victor"
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"A Tribute to the Sportsmanship
of the Fan"
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"We are the duckers of crosses"
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"When you were a set-up and I was
a ham"
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XXII. The Dark Continent
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"Victory"
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"When the Gods Were Kings"
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"The Zulu Lord"
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"Zululand"
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XXIII. Dark Fantasy & Horror
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"Against the blood red moon a tower
stands"
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"All Hallow’s Eve"
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"Arkham"
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"At the Bazaar"
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"Black Seas"
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"Dead Man’s Hate"
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"The Dead Slaver’s Tale"
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"Destination"
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"Devon Oak"
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"Drowned"
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"A Dull Sound as of Knocking"
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"Dweller in Dark Valley"
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"Far in the gloomy Northland"
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| "The Fear That Follows"
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"Forbidden Magic"
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"The Ghost Kings"
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"The Ghost Ocean"
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"Ju-Ju Doom"
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"The Last Words He Heard"
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"The Lost Galley"
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"Moon Mockery"
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"The Moor Ghost"
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"One Who Comes at Eventide"
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"The Phantoms Gather"
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"Rhyme of the Three Slavers"
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"The Ride of Falume"
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"The Sea-Woman"
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"Shadow Thin"
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"Shadows"
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"Shadows of Dreams"
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"The Song of the Mad Minstrel"
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"A Song of the Werewolf Folk"
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"The Stranger"
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"The Symbol"
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"The Tavern"
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"Thus Spake Sven the Fool"
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"To a Woman"
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"Up, John Kane!"
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XXIV. The
Grim Land: Tales of Texas and the West
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"The Alamo"
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"Ballad of Buckshot Roberts"
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"But the Hills Were Ancient Then"
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"The Feud"
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"Ghost Dancers"
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"The Grim Land"
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"John Ringold"
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"The Kiowa’s Tale"
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"The Lost San Saba Mine"
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"Modest Bill"
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"Old Bill Faro was a man of might"
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"San Jacinto" [Version 1]
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"San Jacinto" [Version 2]
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"The Sand-Hill’s Crest"
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"Sonora to Del Rio"
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XXV. Longer Narratives: Howard and Epic Song
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"The Ballad of King Geraint"
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"Eric of Norway"
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XXVI. Pirate
Tales
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"A Buccaneer Speaks"
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"Buccaneer Treasure"
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"Drake Sings of Yesterday"
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"A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure"
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"Flint’s Passing"
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"A Pirate Remembers"
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"A Song of the Anchor Chain"
|
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XXVII. Poems Relevant to the
Prose Fiction
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"Am-Ra the Ta-an"
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"The Bell of Morni"
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"The Black Stone"
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"The Blood of Belshazzar"
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"Cimmeria"
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"The Drums of Pictdom"
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"The Grey God Passes"
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"The Hour of the Dragon"
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"Kelly the Conjure-Man"
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"Kings of the Night"
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"The King and the Oak"
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"The Lion of Tiberias"
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"Men of the Shadows"
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"The One Black Stain"
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"The Phoenix on the Sword"
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"The
Pool of the Black One"
|
"Queen of the Black
Coast"
|
"Red Blades of Black
Cathay"
|
"The Return of Sir
Richard Grenville"
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"The Road of Azrael"
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"Rune of the Ancient
One"
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"The Scarlet Citadel"
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"Solomon Kane’s Homecoming"
|
"Something About Eve"
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"Song of the Pict"
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"A Song of the Race"
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"The Sowers of the
Thunder"
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"The Thing on the Roof"
|
The Zukala Poems: A
Narrative Cycle
"The Tower of Zukala"
"Zukala's Hour"
"Zukala's Jest"
"Zukala's Love Song"
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XXVIII. Viking Tales
|
"The Outgoing of Sigurd
the Jerusalem-Farer"
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"The Return of the
Sea-Farer"
|
"The Rhyme of the Viking
Path"
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"Singing Hemp"
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"The Song of Horsa’s
Galley"
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"Viking’s Trail"
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"Viking’s Vision"
|
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XXIX. Poetic Sequences
|
The Black Dawn Sequence
1. "Shadows"
2. "Clouds"
3. "Shrines"
4. "The Iron Harp"
5. "Invocation"
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Sonnets Out of Bedlam
1. "The Soul-Eater"
2. "The Last Hour"
3. "The Singer in the Mist"
4. "Haunting Columns"
5. "The Dream and the Shadow"
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Voices Out of the Night
[The Iron Harp]
1. "Out of the Deep" [The Voices Waken Memory]
2. "Babel"
3. "Laughter in the Gulfs"
4. "Moon Shame"
5. "A Crown for a King"
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XXX. Prose Poems
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"Proem" (See page 1 of book)
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"Etchings in Ivory"
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"Flaming Marble"
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"Skulls and Orchids"
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"Medallions in the
Moon"
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"The Gods that Men
Forgot"
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"Bloodstones and Ebony"
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