List of HP Lovecraft's poems

This list contains the famous poems of the American writer HP Lovecraft .

Poems arranged in time

The following table shows Lovecraft's datable poems. Data in italics refer to the time of first printing.

title	date
The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey	November 8, 1897
Ovid's Metamorphoses	1898-1902
H. Lovecraft's Attempted Journey betwixt Providence & Fall River on the NYNH & HRR	1901
Poemata Minora, Volume II	1902
CSA 1861-1865: To the Starry Cross of the SOUTH	1902
De Triumpho Naturae	July 1905
The Members of the Men's Club of the First Universalist Church of Providence, RI, to Its President, About to Leave for Florida on Account of His Health	approx. 1908-12
[To His Mother on Thanksgiving]	November 30, 1911
To Mr. Terhune, on His Historical Fiction	approx. 1911-13
Providence in 2000. AD	March 4, 1912
New England Fall	April 1912
On the Creation of Niggers	1912
Fragment on Whitman	circa 1912
[On Robert Browning]	circa 1912
On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight	September 7, 1913
Quinsnicket Park	1913
To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and Entertaining Account of Switzerland	January 1, 1914
Ad Criticos	January – May? 1914
Frustration of premunitus	June? 1914
De Scriptore Mulieroso	June? 1914
To General Villa	Summer 1914
On a Modern Lothario	July-August 1914
The End of the Jackson War	October 1914
To the Members of the Pin-Feathers on the Merits of Their Organization, and of Their New Publication, The Pinfeather	November 1914
To the Rev. James Pyke	November 1914
To an Accomplished Young Gentlewoman on Her Birthday, Decr. 2, 1914	2. December? 1914
Regner Lodbrog's Epicedium	circa December 1914
The Power of Wine: A Satire	circa December 8, 1914
The Teuton's Battle Song	circa December 17, 1914
New England	December 18, 1914
Gryphus in Asinum mutatus	1914?
To the Members of the United Amateur Press Association from the Providence Amateur Press Club	circa January 1, 1915
March	March 1915
1914	March 1915
The Simple Speller's Tale	April 1915
[On slang]	April 1915
To Elegy on Franklin Chase Clark, MD	April 29, 1915
The Bay-Stater's Policy	June 1915
The Crime of Crimes	July 1915
Ye Ballad of Patrick by Flynn	circa August 23, 1915
The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad	circa September 14, 1915
On Receiving a Picture of Swans	circa September 14, 1915
Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea	circa September 30, 1915
[On “Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea ”]	circa September 30, 1915
To Charlie of the Comics	circa September 30, 1915
Gems from In a Minor Key	October 1915
The State of Poetry	October 1915
The Magazine Poet	October 1915
A Mississippi Autumn	December 1915
On the Cowboys of the West	December 1915
To Samuel Loveman, Esquire, on His Poetry and Drama, Writ in the Elizabethan Style	December 1915
An American to Mother England	January 1916
The Bookstall	January 1916
A Rural Summer Eve	January 1916
To the Late John H. Fowler, Esq.	March 1916
R. Kleiner, Laureate, in Heliconem	April 1916
Temperance song	Spring 1916
Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee	circa May 18, 1916
Content	June 1916
My Lost Love	circa June 10, 1916
The Beauties of Peace	June 27, 1916
The smile	July 1916
Epitaph on y e Letterr Rrr ........	August 29, 1916
The Dead Bookworm	circa August 29, 1916
[On Phillips Gamwell]	September 1, 1916
inspiration	October 1916
Respite	October 1916
The Rose of England	October 1916
The Unknown	October 1916
Ad Balneum	circa October 1916
[On Kelso the Poet]	October? 1916
Providence Amateur Press Club (Deceased) to the Athenaeum Club of Journalism	November 24, 1916
Brotherhood	December 1916
Brumalia	December 1916
The Poe-et's Nightmare	1916
Futurist Art	January 1917
On Receiving a Picture of the Marshes at Ipswich	January 1917
The Rutted Road	January 1917
To Elegy on Phillips Gamwell, Esq.	January 5, 1917
Lines on Graduation from the RI Hospital's School of Nurses	circa January 13, 1917
Fact and fancy	February 1917
The Nymph's Reply to the Modern Business Man	February 1917
Pacifist War Song — 1917	March 1917
Percival Lowell	March 1917
To Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry	March 1917
Britannia Victura	April 1917
spring	April 1917
A garden	April 1917
Sonnet on Myself	April 1917
April	April 24, 1917
Iterum conjunctae	May 1917
The Peace Advocate	May 1917
To Greece, 1917	May? 1917
On Receiving a Picture of ye Towne of Templeton, in the Colonie of Massachusetts-Bay, with Mount Monadnock, in New-Hampshire, Shewn in the Distance	June 1917
The Poet of Passion	June 1917
Earth and Sky	July 1917
Ode for July Fourth, 1917	July 1917
On the Death of a Rhyming Critic	July 1917
Prologue to “Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration” by Jonathan E. Hoag	July 1917
To MWM	July 1917
To the incomparable Clorinda	July 1917
To Saccharissa, Fairest of Her Sex	July 1917
To Rhodoclia — Peerless among Maidens	July 1917
To Belinda, Favorite of the Graces	July 1917
To Heliodora — Sister of Cytheraea	July 1917
To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema	August 1917
An American to the British Flag	November 1917
Autumn	November 1917
Nemesis	November 1, 1917
Astrophobos	circa November 25, 1917
Lines on the 25th. Anniversary of the Providence Evening News , 1892-1917	December 1917
Sunset	December 1917
Old Christmas	Late 1917
To the Arcadian	Late 1917
To the Nurses of the Red Cross	1917
The Introduction	1917?
A Summer Sunset and Evening	1917?
A winter wish	January 2, 1918
Laeta; a lament	February 1918
To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq.	February 1918
The volunteer	February 1918
Ad Britannos — 1918	April 1918
Ver Rusticum	April 1, 1918
To Mr. Kleiner, on Receiving from Him the Poetical Works of Addison, Gay, and Somerville	April 10, 1918
A Pastoral Tragedy of Appleton, Wisconsin	circa May 27, 1918
On a Battlefield in Picardy	May 30, 1918
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme	Late 1917 – summer 1918
A June afternoon	June 1918
The Spirit of Summer	June 27, 1918
Grace	July 1918
The Link	July 1918
To Alan Seeger	July 1918
August	August 1918
Damon and Delia, a Pastoral	August 1918
Phaeton	August 1918
To Arthur Goodenough, Esq.	August 20, 1918
Hellas	September 1918
To Delia, Avoiding Damon	September 1918
Alfredo; a Tragedy	September 14, 1918
The eidolon	October 1918
Monos: An ode	October 1918
Germania — 1918	November 1918
To Col. Linkaby Didd	November 1, 1918
ambition	December 1918
A cycle of verse	November – December 1918
To the Eighth of November	December 13, 1918
To the AHSPC, on Receipt of the Christmas Pippin	December? 1918
The Conscript	1918?
Greetings	January 1919
Theodore Roosevelt	January 1919
To Maj.-Gen. Omar Bundy, USA	January 1919
To Jonathan Hoag, Esq.	February 1919
Despair	circa February 19, 1919
In memoriam: JETD	March 1919
Revelation	March 1919
April Dawn	April 10, 1919
Amissa Minerva	May 1919
Damon: A monody	May 1919
Hylas and Myrrha: A Tale	May 1919
North and South Britons	May 1919
To the AHSPC, on Receipt of the Mai Pippin	May? 1919
Helene Hoffman Cole: 1893-1919	June 1919
John Oldham: A Defense	June 1919
[On Prohibition]	June 30, 1919
Myrrha and Strephon	July 1919
the House	circa July 16, 1919
Monody on the Late King Alcohol	August 1919
The Pensive Swain	October 1919
The City	October 1919
Oct. 17, 1919	October 1919
On collaboration	October 20, 1919
To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany	November 1919
Wisdom	November 1919
Birthday Lines to Margfred Galbraham	November 1919
The Nightmare Lake	December 1919
Bells	December 11, 1919
January	January 1920
To Phillis	January 1920
Tryout's Lament for the Vanished Spider	January 1920
Ad Scribam	February 1920
On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder	March 1920
To a dreamer	April 25, 1920
Cindy: Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper	June 1920
The Poet's Rash Excuse	July 1920
With a copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales	July 1920
Ex-Poet's Reply	July? 1920
To Two Epgephi	July? 1920
On religion	August 1920
The Voice	August 1920
On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park	20th August 1920
The dream	September 1920
October [1]	October 1920
To SSL — Oct. 17, 1920	October 1920
Christmas	November 1920
To Alfred Galpin, Esq.	November? 1920
Theobaldian Aestivation	November 11, 1920
SSL: Christmas 1920	December? 1920
On Receiving a Portraiture of Mrs. Berkeley, y e Poetess	December 25, 1920
The Prophecy of Capys Secundus	January 11, 1921
To a Youth	February 1921
To Mr. Hoag	February 1921
The Pathetick History of Sir Wilful Wildrake	Spring? 1921
On the Return of Maurice Winter Moe, Esq., To the Pedagogical Profession	June 1921
Medusa: A portrait	November 29, 1921
To Mr. Galpin	December 1921
Sir Thomas Tryout	December 1921
On a Poet's Ninety-first Birthday	February 10, 1922
Simplicity: A Poem	circa May 18, 1922
To Saml: Loveman, Gent.	Summer? 1922
Plaster-All	August? 1922
To Zara	August 31, 1922
To Damon	November? 1922
Waste paper	Late 1922? early 1923?
To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq.	January 1923
Chloris and Damon	January 1923
To Mr. Hoag	February? 1923
To Endymion	April? 1923
The Feast	May 1923
[On Marblehead]	July 10, 1923
To Mr. Baldwin, on Receiving a Picture of Him in a Rural Bower	September 29, 1923
Lines for Poets 'Night at the Scribblers' Club	October? 1923
[On a scene in Rural Rhode Island]	November 8, 1923
Damon and Lycë	December 13, 1923
To Mr. Hoag	circa February 3, 1924
[On the Pyramids]	circa February 1924
[Stanzas on Samarkand I-III]	February-March 1924
Providence	September 26, 1924
[On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams]	circa November 29, 1924
Solstice	December 25, 1924
To Samuel Loveman Esq.	circa January 14, 1925
To George Kirk, Esq.	January 18, 1925
My Favorite Character	January 31, 1925
[On the Double-R Coffee House]	February 1, 1925
To Mr. Hoag	circa February 10, 1925
The cats	February 15, 1925
[On Rheinhart Little Being Hit by an Automobile]	circa February 16, 1925
To Xanthippe, on Her Birthday — March 16, 1925	March 1925
Primavera	April 1925
[To Frank Belknap Long on His Birthday]	April? 1925
A year off	July 24, 1925
To an Infant	August 26, 1925
[On a Politician]	approx. 24-27. October 1925
[On a room for rent]	approx. 24-27. October 1925
October	2 [30. October 1925]
To George Willard Kirk, Gent., Of Chelsea-Village, in New-York, upon His Birthday, Novr. 25, 1925	November 24, 1925
[On Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene]	December 1925
festival	December 1925
To Jonathan Hoag	February 10, 1926
Hallowe'en in a suburb	March 1926
In Memoriam: Oscar Incoul Verelst of Manhattan: 1920–1926	circa June 28, 1926
The return	December 1926
Είς Σφίγγην	December 1926
Hedone	January 3, 1927
To Miss Beryl Hoyt	February 1927
To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq.	February? 1927
[On JF Roy Erford]	June 18, 1927
[On Ambrose Bierce]	circa June 1927
[On Cheating the Post Office]	circa August 14, 1927
[On Newport, Rhode Island]	September 17, 1927
The Absent Leader	October 12, 1927
Ave atque Vale	October 18, 1927
To a Sophisticated Young Gentleman	December 15, 1928
The Wood	January 1929
An Epistle to the Rt. Hon ble Maurice Winter Moe, Esq.	July 1929
[Stanzas on Samarkand IV]	November 8, 1929
Lines upon the Magnates of the Pulp	November 1929
The Outpost	November 26, 1929
The Ancient Track	November 26, 1929
The Messenger	November 30, 1929
The East India Brick Row	December 12, 1929
Fungi from Yuggoth	December 27, 1929–4. January 1930
Veteropinguis Redivivus	Summer 1930?
To a Young Poet in Dunedin	circa May 29, 1931
On an Unspoil'd Rural Prospect	August 30, 1931
Bouts Rimés	May 23, 1934
[Anthem of the Kappa Alpha Tau]	circa August 7, 1934
Edith Miniter	September 10, 1934
[Little Sam Perkins]	circa September 17, 1934
[Metrical Example]	February 27, 1935
Dead Passion's Flame	Summer 1935
Arcadia	Summer 1935
Lullaby for the Dionne Quintuplets	Summer 1935
The Odes of Horace: Book III, ix	January 22, 1936
In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd	August 8, 1936
To Mr. Finlay, upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God"	circa November 30, 1936
To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., Upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures	circa December 11, 1936

Undated poems

• The Decline and Fall of a Man of the World
• [Epigrams]
• Gaudeamus
• The Greatest Law
• Life's Mystery
• On Mr. L. Phillips Howard's Profound Poem Entitled "Life's Mystery"
• Nathicana
• On an Accomplished Young Linguist
• “The Poetical Punch” Pushed from His Pedestal
• The Road to Ruin
• Saturnalia
• Sonnet Study
• Sor's poetae
• To Saml Loveman Esq.
• To "The Scribblers"
• Verses Designed to Be Sent by a Friend of the Author to His Brother-in-Law on New Year's Day

Birthday poems

• To Eugene B. Kuntz et al.
• To Laurie A. Sawyer
• To Sonia H. Greene
• To Rheinhart Kleiner
• To Felis (Frank Belknap Long's cat)
• To Annie EP Gamwell
• To Felis (Frank Belknap Long's cat)

Fungi from Yuggoth

• The Book
• Pursuit
• The Key
• Recognition
• Homecoming
• The lamp
• Zaman's Hill
• The port
• The Courtyard
• The Pigeon Flyers
• The Well
• The Howler
• Hesperia
• Star Winds
• Antarctica
• The Window
• A memory
• The Gardens of Yin
• The Bells
• Night gaunts
• Nyarlathotep
• Azathoth
• Mirage
• The Canal
• St. Toad's
• The Familiars
• The Elder Pharos
• Expectancy
• Nostalgia
• Background
• The Dweller
• Alienation
• Harbor Whistles
• Recapture [November 1929]
• Evening Star
• Continuity

literature

• A Chronology of Lovecraft's Poetry. In: The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of HP Lovecraft. Edited by ST Joshi. Night Shade Books, San Francisco 2001, ISBN 1-892389-15-0 . New edition: Hippocampus Press, New York 2013, ISBN 1-61498-070-5 .

See also

• List of stories by HP Lovecraft
• List of essays, papers, and contributions from HP Lovecraft

Web links

• Lovecraft's Poetry

Remarks

1. ↑ Consists of the poems:
   • Ode to Selene or Diana
   • To the Old Pagan Religion
   • On the Ruin of Rome
   • To pan
   • On the Vanity of Human Ambition
2. ↑ Consists of the poems:
   • Oceanus
   • Clouds
   • Mother earth
3. ↑ Consists of the poems:
   • Beyond Zimbabwe
   • The White Elephant