List poems by publication date.
Robert E. Howard wrote over 700 poems, so this list is far from complete. Rather, it reflects works that have appeared alongside his stories in various collections over the years.
- A Buccaneer Speaks
- A Dull Sound as of Knocking
- A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure
- A Legend of Faring Town
- A Pirate Remembers
- A Song of the Anchor Chain
- A Song of the Naked Lands
- A Song of the Race
- A Song of the Werewolf Folk
- A Song Out of Midian
- A Thousand Years Ago
- A Word From the Outer Dark
- Ace High
- Adventure (“I am the spur…”)
- Always Comes Evening
- Am-ra the Ta-an
- An Echo From the Iron Harp
- An Open Window
- Arkham
- At the Inn of the Gory Dagger
- Autumn
- Aw Come On and Fight!
- The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts
- The Ballad of King Geraint
- Bill Boozy Was a Pirate Bold
- Black Chant Imperial
- Black Harps in the Hills
- Black Michael’s Story
- Buccaneer Treasure
- But the Hills Were Ancient Then
- The Champ
- Cimmeria
- The Cooling of Spike McRue
- Cowboy
- Crete
- The Dancer
- Dead Man’s Hate
- The Dead Slaver’s Tale
- Desert Dawn
- Down the Ages
- The Dream and the Shadow
- Dreaming on Downs
- The Drums of Pictdom
- The Dust Dance (version 1)
- The Dweller in Dark Valley
- Easter Island
- Echoes From an Anvil
- Fables for Little Folks
- Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or
- The Fear that Follows
- The Feud
- Flint’s Passing
- Forbidden Magic
- Fragment
- The Gates of Nineveh
- The Ghost Kings
- The Grim Land
- The Harp of Alfred
- Haunting Columns
- The Hills of Kandahar
- In the Ring
- Jack Dempsey
- John L. Sullivan
- John Ringold
- Kid Lavigne is Dead
- The King and the Oak
- The Last Day
- Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die
- The Madness of Cormac
- The Marching Song of Connacht
- Memories of Alfred
- Moon Mockery
- Moonlight on a Skull
- The Moor Ghost
- Musings
- Never Beyond the Beast
- Niflheim
- Old Faro Bill
- Over the Old Rio Grandey
- The One Black Stain
- One Who Comes at Eventide
- The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer
- The Pirate
- The Poets
- Recompense
- Red Thunder
- Remembrance
- The Return of Sir Richard Grenville
- The Ride of Falume
- The Riders of Babylon
- The Sand-Hills’ Crest
- The Seven-Up Ballad
- Shadows on the Road
- Ships
- The Sign of the Sickle
- Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls
- The Singer in the Mist
- The Skull in the Clouds
- Slugger’s Vow
- Solomon Kane’s Homecoming
- Song at Midnight
- Song before Clontarf
- The Song of a Mad Minstrel
- The Song of Horsa’s Galley
- The Song of the Bats
- The Song of the Last Briton
- The Song of Yar Ali Khan
- The Soul-Eater
- Summer Morn
- The Symbol
- The Tavern
- The Sword of Lal Singh
- The Tide
- Timur-lang
- To a Woman
- Untitled (“Against the blood red moon…”)
- Untitled (“And Dempsey climbed into the ring…”)
- Untitled (“I am the spirit of war!”)
- Untitled (“Now bright, now red…”)
- Untitled poem (There’s a bell that hangs…)
- Untitled (“The east is red and I am dead…”)
- Untitled (“They matched me up that night…”)
- Untitled (“We are the duckers of crosses…”)
- Untitled (“You have built a world of paper and wood…”)
- Up, John Kane!
- Viking’s Trail
- The Voices Waken Memory
- When You Were a Set-up and I Was a Ham
- Which Will Scarcely Be Understood
List poems by publication date.