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# After the trumps are sounded...

Sent in a letter to Howard's friend Tevis Clyde Smith, c. September 1929. First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, 2007.
After the trumps are sounded Over the fading world After the drums are silent And the lastmost flag is furled, May we enjoy what we long for A boon that we sinners may tell The most that we have to hope for A comfortable berth in Hell.
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# All the crowd...

Sent in a letter to Howard's friend Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925. First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval, 2007.
All the crowd Meek and proud Yellin' loud "Knock him out!" Queer, How clear I hear Every shout. Sure, show! Let 'em know Every blow Every clout. First a left, All my heft, His guard's reft, Great fun. Then a right, Full might. My fight. I've won.
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# And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd ...

Sent in a letter to Howard's friend Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925. First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1, 2007.
"And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered. And Carl Morris climbed into the ring and the crowd yelled, "Sock his damned jaw!" And Dempsey hit Carl, by Hell! And Carl hit the floor, by Hell! And the crowd yelled, "You're the boy Jack!"
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# Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies Reddening to rose from their first gray of steel. Glowering in the sun-rise,’mid the golden sun-rise Dark against the sun-rise loomed the grim Bastille.
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# The east is red and I am dead ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
The east is red and I am dead, stark on a silent host The day breaks and the kite wakes and laughter thrills my ghost.
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# Give ye of my best though the dole be meager ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
“Give ye of my best though the dole be meager.”
“That the tune ye play or the ballads that ye sing?”
“I sing a song of Freedom,” laughed the old blind beggar,
“Fiddle ye a tune that shall dance down a king.”
Swift then the fiddle-bow rasped on the fiddle-strings
Strange, high and wild rose the notes, clear and clean.
Nobles that were passing by, (steeds chaming bridle-rings)
Shuddered at the melodies of old bind Jean.
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# He clutched his ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
He clutched his penis tight
For he was hot that night
And waved it high
Up at the dim and laughing sky.
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# The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo,
Smiling at skirted girls, pink-cheeked
And freckled.
Come roam the Ocean Isles, while over sea flying.
While o’er the sea-gulls, whirling and braying;
Follow the crocodiles over to Iceland.
Yo-ho! And a bottle of strawberry soda!
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# Hills of the North! Lavender hills ...

Sent in a letter to Howard's friend Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925. First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1, 2007.
Hills of the North! Lavender hills. Blue hills, tipped with crystal Defying the ages. Hills, high peaks where eagles wheel, Where wild winds shout forever, Whirling the snow Like a mad dervish.
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# A hundred years the great war raged

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923.
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# I am MAN from the primal, I ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I am Man from the primal, I;
Huge of belly and red of hand
Swept with a flame that never shall die
Till the moon falls out of the reeling sky
And the sea is rent from the land.
Fool of the cosmos, sprite of the dust
Shaking the stars with my phallic lust.
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# I am the Spirit of War! ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I am the Spirit of War!
My hands are red with gore.
They know my heel
Where the clash of steel
Matches the cannon's roar!
My hands are gory red
Ranks crumple beneath my stride
O'er vanquished heaps I tread,
On the wings of the wind I ride.
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# I do not sing of a paradise ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I do not sing of a paradise
I sing of a world of lust,
Of harlots, thieves and swinish vice
And dust that fades to dust.
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# I hate the man who tells me that I lied ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY (24 lines)
I hate the man who tells me that I lied;
I may eat mice but still I have some pride.
One night I dreamed the moon spread out a scroll
Against the stars in heaven’s dark blue bowl.
Thereon I read a formula for making
Diamonds of stars; my own but for the taking.
I dreamed I broke a star from out the blue,
And soon beneath my hands a diamond grew.
But then I looked into the sky again
And all my work seemed childish—drab and vain;
A million light my glorious diamond lit,
Yet I had dimmed a star in making it
And so I put it back—all in my dream—
And to my wonder saw it flame and gleam
Brighter than all the other stars around;
My heart beat up my blood with one great bound.
And when I woke I sighed and longed so greatly
To do that wondrous thing I dreamed, that straightly
I told it as a truth to all I met—
It angers me that they revile me yet.
I may ride geese to find a morning moon
And teach a pig to dance and sing a tune.
That I praise rats I never have denied,
But damn the grunging fool who says I lied.
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# I hold all women are a gang of tramps ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I hold all women are a gang of tramps;
Where hermit men hold sway I’ll pitch my camps.
I trust no more a flimsy, fickle skirt;
I loved a woman and she done me dirt,
Her beauty was al beauty met in one.
My love was as a worshipper’s, the sun.
She proved as false as Hell, like all her kind,
Broke down the shrine I’d throne her in my mind.
And now I’ll go where she can never come—
She would not let me chaw her godamn gum.
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# I lay in Yen’s opium joint ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I lay in Yen’s opium joint,
A-watchin’ the devils dance
And the mandarin on the painted screen
’E seemed to h’arise and prance.
H’a most ondecent purformance
Ee-yah, and it’s the truth
I’ll forswear all ’eathen contraptions and go back to the booze of my youth.
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# The iron harp that Adam christened Life ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
The iron harp that Adam christened Life
The iron harp that Adam christened Life
Drips haunting tones into the brazen bowl
That Satan’s wife
Grips close between her heavy naked thighs.
(Her burning eyes
Tell of each god to whom she paid hard toll.)
An endless monotone of single notes
That ne’er began and nevermore shall end
Across the seas in dim metallics floats
The years to blend.
And they that bear the harp revere their lords,
The blind uncertain gods that smite the chords.
Like some Manchurian gong of keenest jade
Into the brazen bowl the brazen tones
Drum out a hard scintillant cannonade
As in a skull were shaken precious stones.
And she who holds the bowl still knows the spur
Of they who smite the harp and ravish her.
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# I tell you this, my friend ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
I tell you this, my friend,
Blasphemy lies amid expressed belief,
That differs with the orthodox opinion.
If I have a mind
And use it for myself nor lick the boots
Of other, wiser maybe, men,
I blaspheme in their eyes. ’Tis not
That I fling mud on their belief,
But simply that I disagree with them.
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# Keep women, thrones and kingly lands ...

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY
Keep women, thrones and kingly lands,
Grant me—to work all mankind dole
To cleave their skulls and split their hands,
To kill the body, damn the soul.
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