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A Gibbet Against the Sky

129 Poems by Robert E. Howard

Audio recordings

For more about and by Robert E. Howard go to the Dunyazad Library’s
Robert E. Howard page.

Audio Recordings of Poems by Robert E. Howard

This selection of Howard’s poems, most of which were not published during the author’s lifetime, reflects the editor’s personal choices; it does not try to give a balanced picture of Howard’s poetic oeuvre, nor of the poet’s person. Not only the selection, which is arguably biased towards the dark, but also the order in which the poems are here presented, and their division in five sections, are based upon nothing but the editor’s fancy.

Last updated: April 19, 2022

For private use only. Do not redistribute any of the audio files without the respective voice artist’s written consent. If you link directly to any of the audio files, please also provide a link to this page.

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This zip file contains all 129 recordings, a PDF e-book with the texts of the poems, and a HTM page similar to this one, with links to the individual audio files — you can, of course, listen to them on any device and with any app that plays mp3 files.

Note: Unpack the zip archive into an empty folder!

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Download Text

If you download the zip archive with all the recordings (see above), a PDF file with the poems is included.

Download PDF file – release 1.1 – 193 pages

Download printer friendly PDF file – release 1.1

Download plain text file – release 1.1a

Download ePub file – release 1.1a

My thanks to the voice artists!

In alphabetical order:

Allison Rose (10) – Allison Rose, voice actor

Azure (8) – Games, Writing, Coffee

Falk Gündel (1) – Falk’s page on Hoer-talk.de

Jim Bowering (1) – Green Comet

Katzy_Kins (4) – linktr.ee/Katzy_Kins

Kevin Cunningham (15)

Meri Paite (2)

Michael Freund (3)

Nina Nikolic (3) – Voices of Nina

Rafael Del Valle Jr (1)

Ranger Fox (4) – Ranger H Fox

Tom Beaty (14)

Venessa (8)

and your humble librarian himself, yhl (55)

If you want to thank them, too, please contact them directly if possible, or tell me and I’ll forward your message. Also, please leave a note in the Guestbook.

Audio Recordings – listen or download

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# Title read by m:ss
0-01 Musings yhl 0:58
1-01 Ambition yhl 0:41
1-02 A Stirring of Green Leaves Allison Rose 0:50
1-03 The Adventurer Tom Beaty 2:49
1-04 A Challenge to Bast yhl 1:03
1-05 Egypt yhl 1:13
1-06 Ivory in the Night Kevin 0:30
1-07 Desire Kevin 0:51
1-08 Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight yhl 0:44
1-09 Love Kevin 0:43
1-10 The Sea Girl Michael 1:08
1-11 Ocean-Thoughts Jim Bowering 1:08
1-12 Love’s Young Dream yhl 1:45
1-13 The Myth Ranger Fox 1:47
1-14 The Weakling Michael 0:48
1-15 Men are toys on a godling’s string yhl 0:23
1-16 Nectar Tom Beaty 1:08
1-17 Moonlight on a Skull Tom Beaty 0:52
1-18 Recompense Allison Rose 2:06
1-19 Slumber Allison Rose 0:59
1-20 An Open Window Tom Beaty 0:20
1-21 Shadow of Dreams Tom Beaty 2:33
1-22 The ages stride on golden feet Allison Rose 0:34
1-23 Desert Dawn Kevin 0:56
1-24 L’Envoi Allison Rose 0:24
1-25 The Call of Pan Venessa 0:45
1-26 Earth-born Allison Rose 1:11
1-27 The Day Breaks Over Simla yhl 1:33
1-28 A Moment Venessa 0:48
1-29 A Riding Song yhl 1:06
1-30 Deeps Kevin 0:21
1-31 The Sea-Woman Kevin 0:36
1-32 Black Seas yhl 0:47
1-33 Surrender (The Road to Rest) yhl 3:13
1-34 A Man Michael 0:42
1-35 The Gods I Worshipped yhl 0:34
1-36 Monarchs yhl 0:21
2-01 The Heart of the Sea’s Desire Meri Paite 2:19
2-02 Flaming Marble Kevin 0:54
2-03 Lesbia Katzy_Kins 2:22
2-04 A Roman Lady Katzy_Kins 1:39
2-05 Nun Venessa 0:17
2-06 Prude Venessa 0:18
2-07 The Choir Girl Venessa 0:33
2-08 Girl Venessa 0:29
2-09 Sailor Kevin 0:33
2-10 Never Beyond the Beast yhl 1:07
2-11 A Great Man Speaks yhl 1:14
2-12 Rebellion Tom Beaty 0:51
2-13 The Robes of the Righteous Katzy_Kins 1:47
2-14 Repentance Katzy_Kins 1:41
2-15 The Open Window Venessa 1:09
2-16 The Witch yhl 1:57
2-17 Moon Mockery yhl 1:11
2-18 The Last Words He Heard yhl 1:24
2-19 The Kiowa’s Tale yhl 2:11
2-20 A Buccaneer Speaks Tom Beaty 1:23
2-21 A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure Tom Beaty 2:27
2-22 The Skull in the Clouds (Reuben’s Brethren) Tom Beaty 0:58
2-23 The Skull in the Clouds (Reuben’s Birthright) Tom Beaty 4:02
2-24 The Ride of Falume yhl 2:48
2-25 The Rhyme of the Three Slavers Falk Gündel 3:22
2-26 Miser’s Gold yhl 1:14
3-01 One Blood Strain Kevin 1:03
3-02 To the Contented yhl 1:35
3-03 Red Thunder yhl 2:25
3-04 Man Am I yhl 2:08
3-05 Symbols Venessa 0:23
3-06 Match a toad with a far-winged hawk Tom Beaty 3:20
3-07 Swords glimmered up the pass Azure 3:13
3-08 Tarantella Azure 2:16
3-09 The Adventurer’s Mistress Kevin 3:13
3-10 The Day that I Die yhl 2:21
3-11 The Drum yhl 1:10
3-12 Life yhl 1:39
3-13 Nights to Both of Us Known Ranger Fox 1:33
3-14 Forbidden Magic Nina Nikolic 1:09
3-15 A Sonnet of Good Cheer yhl 1:19
3-16 Hope Empty of Meaning yhl 0:39
3-17 To a Friend yhl 1:20
3-18 Shadows yhl 1:44
3-19 Secrets Kevin 3:48
3-20 Memories yhl 2:54
3-21 Against the blood red moon a tower stands yhl 0:54
3-22 Remembrance yhl 1:13
3-23 One Who Comes at Eventide yhl 1:25
3-24 Shadows from Yesterday Tom Beaty 2:29
3-25 The Sands of Time yhl 1:06
3-26 On with the Play yhl 1:20
3-27 Rebel souls from the falling dark yhl 0:41
4-01 Romance yhl 2:20
4-02 Empire’s Destiny Kevin 1:21
4-03 A Song Out of Midian yhl 3:20
4-04 For what is a maid to the shout of kings Nina Nikolic 1:08
4-05 Harvest yhl 0:28
4-06 Dreams of Nineveh Allison Rose 1:06
4-07 Babel Allison Rose 1:20
4-08 The Path of the Strange Wanderers Allison Rose 1:28
4-09 Crete Allison Rose 0:43
4-10 Easter Island yhl 1:22
4-11 The Isle of Hy-Brasil Tom Beaty 3:18
4-12 The Gods of the Jungle Drums Azure 1:12
4-13 Nocturne Kevin 0:32
4-14 The Mountains of California yhl 0:52
4-15 The Grim Land Azure 1:56
4-16 Twilight on Stonehenge yhl 1:16
4-17 A Song of the Legions Ranger Fox 1:47
4-18 Shadows on the Road yhl 3:16
4-19 The Cells of the Coliseum yhl 1:35
4-20 The Gold and the Grey Tom Beaty 5:12
4-21 The Gladiator and the Lady Kevin 1:16
4-22 Skulls and Dust Azure 1:05
4-23 The Ghost Kings Rafael 1:06
5-01 Visions yhl 0:34
5-02 The spiders of weariness come on me Meri Paite 0:28
5-03 Futility Ranger Fox 2:11
5-04 The Bride of Cuchulain Nina Nikolic 1:45
5-05 Romany Road Azure 0:43
5-06 Age (To the Old Men) yhl 1:16
5-07 The Voices Waken Memory Azure 1:25
5-08 Lines Written in the Realization … yhl 1:58
5-09 Mingle my dust with the burning brand yhl 0:56
5-10 An Outworn Story yhl 1:49
5-11 Tides yhl 1:17
5-12 Surrender yhl 1:22
5-13 The Chant Demoniac yhl 1:13
5-14 The Dance with Death Azure 3:23
5-15 The Tempter yhl 2:24
5-16 After the trumps are sounded Kevin 0:24

Durations include 2 seconds of trailing silence.

Audio editing (with a few exceptions) done by your librarian.

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