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 | |
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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 .