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    A Collection of Poetry
    A Collection of Poetry
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    A Collection of Poetry

    By Robert E. Howard

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    A poetry collection featuring the best lyrical works from American writer Robert E. Howard.

    This poetry collection features the best of Robert E. Howard’s work. The American writer is known for his marvellous pulp fiction and is often referred to as the father of the sword and sorcery genre. His poetry, though lesser known than his fiction, reflects the heavy influence that the American frontier had on his life and writing. His traditional lyrical style is coupled with themes of existentialism and often violence, reflecting the writer’s lifelong struggle with his mental health.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateFeb 12, 2015
    ISBN9781473397316
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      A Collection of Poetry - Robert E. Howard

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      A Collection of Poetry

      by

      Robert E. Howard

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

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      Contents

      A Collection of Poetry

      Robert E. Howard

      Adventurer

      The Alamo

      Always Comes Evening

      Ambition

      An American

      An American Epic

      At The Bazaar

      Aw Come On And Fight!

      Babel

      But The Hills Were Ancient Then

      The Choir Girl

      Crete

      Dead Man’s Hate

      Deeps

      Dreamer

      Dreaming On Downs

      Dreams Of Nineveh

      Easter Island

      Empire’s Destiny

      Eternity

      Fables For Little Folk

      Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or

      Flaming Marble

      Forbidden Magic

      The Gates of Nineveh

      Girl

      A Great Man Speaks

      The Harp of Alfred

      Illusion

      Ivory in the Night

      Jack Dempsey

      John L. Sullivan

      Kid Lavigne is Dead

      The Kissing of Sal Snooboo

      A Lady’s Chamber

      Laughter

      Lesbia

      Libertine

      Life

      Lines to G. B. Shaw

      Lust

      The Maiden of Kercheezer

      Miser’s Gold

      Monarchs

      Moon Mockery

      The Moor Ghost

      The Mountains of California

      Nun

      Ocean-Thoughts

      The One Black Stain

      One Blood Strain

      One Who Comes at Eventide

      Poet

      Private Magrath of the A.E.F

      Prude

      Rebellion

      Red Thunder

      Repentance

      The Riders of Babylon

      The Ride of Falume

      The Robes of the Righteous

      A Roman Lady

      Romance

      Roundelay Of The Roughneck

      Rules of Etiquette

      Sailor

      The Sands of Time

      The Sea

      Secrets

      Serpent

      Shadow of Dreams

      Skulls and Dust

      The Skull in the Clouds

      Solomon Kane’s Homecoming

      A Song of Cheer

      The Song of the Bats

      Sonora to Del Rio

      Surrender

      Tarantella

      The Tempter

      Tides

      To a Woman

      To the Contended

      Toper

      A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans

      Visions

      The Voices Waken Memory

      The Weakling

      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...

      Hills of the North! Lavender hills...

      Match a toad with a far-winged hawk...

      Mingle my dust with the burning brand...

      Moonlight and shadows barred the land...

      Old Faro Bill was a man of might...

      Rebel souls from the falling dark...

      Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight...

      Swords glimmered up the pass...

      The spiders of weariness come on me...

      There were three lads who went their destined ways...

      There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea...

      We are the duckers of crosses...

      Robert E. Howard

      Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard – a bookish and somewhat introverted child – was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. Although he loved reading and learning, Howard developed a distinctly Texan, hardboiled outlook on the world. He became a passionate fan of boxing, taking it up at an amateur level, and from the age of nine began to write adventure tales of semi-historical bloodshed. In 1919, when Howard was thirteen, his family moved to the Central Texas hamlet of Cross Plains, where he would stay for the rest of his life.

      At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, ‘Golden Hope Christmas’ and ‘West is West’. In 1924 he sold his first piece – a short caveman tale titled ‘Spear and Fang’ – for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. He published with the magazine regularly over the next few years. 1929 was a breakout year for Howard, in that the 23-year-old writer began to sell to other magazines, such as Ghost Stories and Argosy, both of whom had previously sent him hundreds of rejection slips. In 1930, he began a correspondence with weird fiction master H. P. Lovecraft which ran up to his death six years later, and is regarded as one of the great correspondence cycles in all of fantasy literature.

      It was partly due to Lovecraft’s encouragement that Howard created his most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian. Conan – a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago – featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936, and is now regarded as having spawned the ‘sword and sorcery’ genre, making Howard’s influence on fantasy literature comparable to that of J. R. R. Tolkien’s. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

      Howard was enjoying an all-time high in sales by the beginning of 1936, but he was also deeply upset by the ill health of his mother, who had fallen into a coma. On the morning of June 11, 1936, he asked an attending nurse whether she would ever recover, and the nurse replied negatively. Howard walked to his car, parked outside the family home in Cross Plains, and shot himself. He died eight hours later, aged just thirty.

      Adventure

      I am the spur

      That rides men’s souls,

      The glittering lure

      That leads around the world

      Adventurer

      Dusk on the sea; the fading twilight shifts’

      The night wind bears the ocean’s whisper dim—

      Wind, on your bosom many a phantom drifts—

      A silver star climbs up the blue world rim.

      Wind, make the green leaves dance above me here

      And idly swing

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