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Howard Phillips Lovecraft's Poetry, by title

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  • An American to Mother England
    England! My England! can the surging sea
    That lies between us tear my heart from thee?
    63 lines
  • Astrophobos
    In the Midnight heaven's burning
    Through the ethereal deeps afar
    48 lines, 2 comments
  • Christmas Blessings
    As when a pigeon, loos'd in realms remote,
    Takes instant wing, and seeks his native cote,
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Christmas Snows
    As Christmas snows (as yet a poet's trope)       
    Call back one's bygone days of youth and hope,   
    4 lines
  • Christmastide
    The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
    The candles gaily glow;
    9 lines
  • Despair
    O'er the midnight moorlands crying,
    Thro' the cypress forests sighing,
    44 lines
  • Egyptian Christmas
    Haughty Sphinx, whose amber eyes
    Hold the secrets of the skies,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Fact and Fancy
    How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mind
    Disdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;
    30 lines
  • Festival
    There is snow on the ground,
    And the valleys are cold,
    24 lines
  • Fungi from Yuggoth
    I. The Book
    The place was dark and dusty and half-lost
    646 lines, 2 comments
  • Good Saint Nick
    May good St. Nick, like as a bird of night,
    Bring thee rich blessings in his annual flight;
    5 lines
  • Halcyon Days
    Once more the ancient feast returns,
    And the bright hearth domestic burns
    6 lines
  • Hallowe'en in a Suburb
    The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
    And the trees have a silver glare;
    35 lines
  • Laeta; A Lament
    How sad droop the willows by Zalal's fair side,
    Where so lately I stray'd with my raven-hair'd bride;
    44 lines
  • Lines on General Robert Edward Lee
    Si veris magna paratur
    Fama bonis, et se successu nuda remoto
    65 lines
  • Little Tiger
    Little Tiger, burning bright
    With a subtle Blakeish light,
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Nathicana
    It was in the pale garden of Zais;
    The mist-shrouded gardens of Zais,
    99 lines, 1 comment
  • Nemesis
    Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
    Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
    67 lines, 1 comment
  • Ode for July Fourth, 1917
    As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd,
    Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;
    28 lines
  • On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder
    The hours of night unheeded fly,
    And in the grate the embers fade;
    15 lines
  • On Receiving a Picture of Swans
    With pensive grace, the melancholy Swan
    Mourns o'er the tomb of luckless Phaethon;
    11 lines
  • Pacifist War Song - 1917
    We are the valiant Knights of Peace
    Who prattle for the Right:
    28 lines
  • Providence
    Where bay and river tranquil blend,
    And leafy hillsides rise,
    40 lines
  • Revelation
    In a vale of light and laughter,
    Shining 'neath the friendly sun,
    56 lines
  • St. John
    St. John, whose art sublimely shines
    In liquid odes and melting lines,
    9 lines
  • Sunset
    The cloudless day is richer at its close;
    A golden glory settles on the lea;
    12 lines
  • The Bride of the Sea
    Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,
    Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • The Cats
    Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering
    Flames of futility swirling below;
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The City
    It was golden and splendid,
    That City of light;
    55 lines
  • The Conscript
    I am a peaceful working man,
    I am not wise or strong,
    48 lines
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