Lovecraft's Poetry

Lovecraft’s Poetry

Like Poe, Lovecraft began writing significantly more poetry than fiction, and at one point considered himself primarily a poet. All of Lovecraft’s poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft; this list is based on “A Chronology of Lovecraft’s Poetry” in that book. Dates in italics indicate date of publication.

The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey [8 November 1897]
Ovid’s Metamorphoses [1898–1902]
H. Lovecraft’s Attempted Journey betwixt Providence & Fall River on the N.Y.N.H. & H.R.R. [1901]
Poemata Minora, Volume II [1902]
- Ode to Selene or Diana
- To the Old Pagan Religion
- On the Ruin of Rome
- To Pan
- On the Vanity of Human Ambition
C.S.A. 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, R.I., to Its President, About to Leave for Florida on Account of His Health [c. 1908–12]
[To His Mother on Thanksgiving] [30 November 1911]
To Mr. Terhune, on His Historical Fiction [c. 1911–13]
Providence in 2000 A.D. [4 March 1912]
New-England Fallen [April 1912]
On the Creation of Niggers [1912]
Fragment on Whitman [c. 1912]
[On Robert Browning] [c. 1912]
On a New-England Village Seen by Moonlight [7 September 1913]
Quinsnicket Park [1913]
To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and Entertaining Account of Switzerland [1 January 1914]
Ad Criticos [January–May? 1914]
Frustra Praemunitus [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 Organisation, 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 [c. December 1914]
The Power of Wine: A Satire [c. 8 December 1914]
The Teuton’s Battle-Song [c. 17 December 1914]
New England [18 December 1914]
Gryphus in Asinum Mutatus [1914?]
To the Members of the United Amateur Press Association from the Providence Amateur Press Club [c. 1 January 1915]
March [March 1915]
1914 [March 1915]
The Simple Speller’s Tale [April 1915]
[On Slang] [April 1915]
An Elegy on Franklin Chase Clark, M.D. [29 April 1915]
The Bay-Stater’s Policy [June 1915]
The Crime of Crimes [July 1915]
Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn [c. 23 August 1915]
The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad [c. 14 September 1915]
On Receiving a Picture of Swans [c. 14 September 1915]
Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea [c. 30 September 1915]
[On “Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea”] [c. 30 September 1915]
To Charlie of the Comics [c. 30 September 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, Laureatus, in Heliconem [April 1916]
Temperance Song [Spring 1916]
Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee [c. 18 May 1916]
Content [June 1916]
My Lost Love [c. 10 June 1916]
The Beauties of Peace [27 June 1916]
The Smile [July 1916]
Epitaph on y^e Letterr Rrr........ [29 August 1916]
The Dead Bookworm [c. 29 August 1916]
[On Phillips Gamwell] [1 September 1916]
Inspiration [October 1916]
Respite [October 1916]
The Rose of England [October 1916]
The Unknown [October 1916]
Ad Balneum [c. October 1916]
[On Kelso the Poet] [October? 1916]
Providence Amateur Press Club (Deceased) to the Athenaeum Club of Journalism [24 November 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]
An Elegy on Phillips Gamwell, Esq. [5 January 1917]
Lines on Graduation from the R.I. Hospital’s School of Nurses [c. 13 January 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 [24 April 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 M. W. M. [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, Favourite 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 [1 November 1917]
Astrophobos [c. 25 November 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 [2 January 1918]
Laeta; a Lament [February 1918]
To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq. [February 1918]
The Volunteer [February 1918]
Ad Britannos—1918 [April 1918]
Ver Rusticum [1 April 1918]
To Mr. Kleiner, on Receiving from Him the Poetical Works of Addison, Gay, and Somerville [10 April 1918]
A Pastoral Tragedy of Appleton, Wisconsin [c. 27 May 1918]
On a Battlefield in Picardy [30 May 1918]
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme [late 1917–summer 1918]
A June Afternoon [June 1918]
The Spirit of Summer [27 June 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. [20 August 1918]
Hellas [September 1918]
To Delia, Avoiding Damon [September 1918]
Alfredo; a Tragedy [14 September 1918]
The Eidolon [October 1918]
Monos: An Ode [October 1918]
Germania—1918 [November 1918]
To Col. Linkaby Didd [1 November 1918]
Ambition [December 1918]
A Cycle of Verse [November–December 1918]
- Oceanus
- Clouds
- Mother Earth
To the Eighth of November [13 December 1918]
To the A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the Christmas Pippin [December? 1918]
The Conscript [1918?]
Greetings [January 1919]
Theodore Roosevelt [January 1919]
To Maj.-Gen. Omar Bundy, U.S.A. [January 1919]
To Jonathan Hoag, Esq. [February 1919]
Despair [c. 19 February 1919]
In Memoriam: J. E. T. D. [March 1919]
Revelation [March 1919]
April Dawn [10 April 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 A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the May Pippin [May? 1919]
Helene Hoffman Cole: 1893–1919 [June 1919]
John Oldham: A Defence [June 1919]
[On Prohibition] [30 June 1919]
Myrrha and Strephon [July 1919]
The House [c. 16 July 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 [20 October 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 [11 December 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 [25 April 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 [20 August 1920]
The Dream [September 1920]
October [1] [October 1920]
To S. S. L.—Oct. 17, 1920 [October 1920]
Christmas [November 1920]
To Alfred Galpin, Esq. [November? 1920]
Theobaldian Aestivation [11 November 1920]
S. S. L.: Christmas 1920 [December? 1920]
On Receiving a Portraiture of Mrs. Berkeley, y^e Poetess [25 December 1920]
The Prophecy of Capys Secundus [11 January 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 [29 November 1921]
To Mr. Galpin [December 1921]
Sir Thomas Tryout [December 1921]
On a Poet’s Ninety-first Birthday [10 February 1922]
Simplicity: A Poem [c. 18 May 1922]
To Saml: Loveman, Gent. [Summer? 1922]
Plaster-All [August? 1922]
To Zara [31 August 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] [10 July 1923]
To Mr. Baldwin, on Receiving a Picture of Him in a Rural Bower [29 September 1923]
Lines for Poets’ Night at the Scribblers’ Club [October? 1923]
[On a Scene in Rural Rhode Island] [8 November 1923]
Damon and Lycë [13 December 1923]
To Mr. Hoag [c. 3 February 1924]
[On the Pyramids] [c. February 1924]
[Stanzas on Samarkand I–III] [February–March 1924]
Providence [26 September 1924]
[On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams] [c. 29 November 1924]
Solstice [25 December 1924]
To Samuel Loveman Esq. [c. 14 January 1925]
To George Kirk, Esq. [18 January 1925]
My Favourite Character [31 January 1925]
[On the Double-R Coffee House] [1 February 1925]
To Mr. Hoag [c. 10 February 1925]
The Cats [15 February 1925]
[On Rheinhart Kleiner Being Hit by an Automobile] [c. 16 February 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 [24 July 1925]
To an Infant [26 August 1925]
[On a Politician] [c. 24–27 October 1925]
[On a Room for Rent] [c. 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 [24 November 1925]
[On Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene] [December 1925]
Festival [December 1925]
To Jonathan Hoag [10 February 1926]
Hallowe’en in a Suburb [March 1926]
In Memoriam: Oscar Incoul Verelst of Manhattan: 1920–1926 [c. 28 June 1926]
The Return [December 1926]
Είς Σφίγγην [December 1926]
Hedone [3 January 1927]
To Miss Beryl Hoyt [February 1927]
To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq. [February? 1927]
[On J. F. Roy Erford] [18 June 1927]
[On Ambrose Bierce] [c. June 1927]
[On Cheating the Post Office] [c. 14 August 1927]
[On Newport, Rhode Island] [17 September 1927]
The Absent Leader [12 October 1927]
Ave atque Vale [18 October 1927]
To a Sophisticated Young Gentleman [15 December 1928]
The Wood [January 1929]
An Epistle to the Rt. Hon^ble Maurice Winter Moe, Esq. [July 1929]
[Stanzas on Samarkand IV] [8 November 1929]
Lines upon the Magnates of the Pulp [November 1929]
The Outpost [26 November 1929]
The Ancient Track [26 November 1929]
The Messenger [30 November 1929]
The East India Brick Row [12 December 1929]
Fungi from Yuggoth [27 December 1929–4 January 1930]
Veteropinguis Redivivus [Summer 1930?]
To a Young Poet in Dunedin [c. 29 May 1931]
On an Unspoil’d Rural Prospect [30 August 1931]
Bouts Rimés [23 May 1934]
- Beyond Zimbabwe
- The White Elephant
[Anthem of the Kappa Alpha Tau] [c. 7 August 1934]
Edith Miniter [10 September 1934]
[Little Sam Perkins] [c. 17 September 1934]
[Metrical Example] [27 February 1935]
Dead Passion’s Flame [Summer 1935]
Arcadia [Summer 1935]
Lullaby for the Dionne Quintuplets [Summer 1935]
The Odes of Horace: Book III, ix [22 January 1936]
In a Sequester’d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk’d [8 August 1936]
To Mr. Finlay, upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch’s Tale, “The Faceless God” [c. 30 November 1936]
To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures [c. 11 December 1936]
The Decline and Fall of a Man of the World [n.d.]
[Epigrams] [n.d.]
Gaudeamus [n.d.]
The Greatest Law [n.d.]
Life’s Mystery [n.d.]
On Mr. L. Phillips Howard’s Profound Poem Entitled “Life’s Mystery” [n.d.]
Nathicana [n.d.]
On an Accomplished Young Linguist [n.d.]
“The Poetical Punch” Pushed from His Pedestal [n.d.]
The Road to Ruin [n.d.]
Saturnalia [n.d.]
Sonnet Study [n.d.]
Sors Poetae [n.d.]
To Saml Loveman Esq. [n.d.]
To “The Scribblers” [n.d.]
Verses Designed to Be Sent by a Friend of the Author to His Brother-in-Law on New Year’s Day [n.d.]
[Christmas Greetings (112)] [n.d.]
- 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 E. P. Gamwell
- To Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s Cat)
[Untitled poems] [n.d.]

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