Fungi From Yuggoth (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
I. The BookThe place was dark and dusty and half-lostIn tangles of old alleys near the quays,Reeking of strange things ...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems (46 Poems)
The Poe-et’s Nightmare (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
A FA FableLuxus tumultus semper causa est.Lucullus Languish, student of the skies,And connoisseur of rarebits and mince pies,A bard by ...
Nathicana (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
It was in the pale garden of Zais; The mist-shrouded gardens of Zais, Where blossoms the white naphalot, The redolent herald ...
Nemesis (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, ...
The City (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
It was golden and splendid, That City of light; A vision suspended In deeps of the night; A region of ...
The House (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
'Tis a grove-circled dwelling Set close to a hill, Where the branches are telling Strange legends of ill; Over timbers ...
Astrophobos (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
In the Midnight heaven's burning Through the ethereal deeps afar Once I watch'd with restless yearning An alluring aureate star; ...
Waste Paper: A Poem Of Profound Insignifican (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
IOut of the reaches of illimitable nightThe blazing planet grew, and forc'd to lifeUnending cycles of progressive strifeAnd strange mutations ...
An Epistle To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, And Author Of “Another Endless Day” (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
KLEINER! in whose quick pulses wildly beat The youth's ambition, and the lyrist's heat, Whose questing spirit scorns our lowly flights, And dares ...
Theodore Roosevelt (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Last of the giants, in whose soul shone clear The sacred torch of greatness and of right, A stricken world, that cannot ...
The Teuton’s Battle-Song (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
The mighty Woden laughs upon his throne, And once more claims his children for his own. The voice of Thor resounds again ...
The Peace Advocate (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
The vicar sat in the firelight's glow,A volume in his hand,And a tear he shed for the widespread woe,And the ...
The Bride Of The Sea (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.Dim are the pathways and ...
To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkelt, (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
As when the sun above a dusky wold,Springs into sight and turns the gloom to gold,Lights with his magic beams ...
Lines On General Robert Edward Lee (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
An American To Mother England (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
England! My England! can the surging seaThat lies between us tear my heart from thee?Can distant birth and distant dwelling ...
Laeta; A Lament (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
How sad droop the willows by Zalal's fair side,Where so lately I stray'd with my raven-hair'd bride;Ev'ry light-floating lily, each ...
The Wood (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
They cut it down, and where the pitch-black aislesOf forest night had hid eternal things, They scaled the sky with ...
Revelation (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
In a vale of light and laughter,Shining 'neath the friendly sun,Where fulfilment follow'd afterEv'ry hope or dream begun;Where an Aidenn ...
On Reading Lord Dunsany’s Book Of Wonder (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
The hours of night unheeded fly, And in the grate the embers fade; Vast shadows one by one pass by In silent daemon ...
March (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Let other bards with nobler talents sing The beauties of the mild, maturer spring. My rustic Muse on bleaker times must dwell, When ...
To Alan Seeger: (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
SEEGER, whose soul, with animated lyre Wak'd the dull dreamer to a manlier fire; Whose martial voice, by martial deeds sustain'd, Denounc'd the ...
The Garden (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
There's an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams, Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with ...
The Conscript (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
I am a peaceful working man,I am not wise or strong,But I can follow Nature's plan,In labour, rest, and song.One ...
Hallowe’en In A Suburb (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
The steeples are white in the wild moonlight, And the trees have a silver glare;Past the chimneys high see the vampires ...
Ode For July Fourth, 1917 (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd, Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;'Gainst their brothers of Britain ...
Despair (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
O'er the midnight moorlands crying,Thro' the cypress forests sighing,In the night-wind madly flying,Hellish forms with streaming hair;In the barren branches ...
Fact And Fancy (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mindDisdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude,And wreck ...
Providence (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Where bay and river tranquil blend,And leafy hillsides rise,The spires of Providence ascendAgainst the ancient skies,And in the narrow winding ...
The Cats (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Babels of blocks to the high heavens toweringFlames of futility swirling below;Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flowering,Lanterns that shudder ...