On An Underwood #5

This fan blog is devoted to Robert E. Howard, the Texas tale-spinner, and all his works of fiction: Sword & Sorcery, Westerns, Boxing, Pirates, Desert Adventures, Horror, poetry, sonnets, and his letters.

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“They trapped the Lion on Shamu’s plain;
They weighted his limbs with an iron chain;
They cried aloud in the trumpet-blast,
They cried, “The lion is caged at last!”
Woe to the Cities of river and plain
If ever the Lion stalks again! — Old Ballad.”

— The Scarlet Citadel (Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales)

(Source: wesroads)

rehfan:

Happy birthday to the bestest writer in the west: Robert E. Howard (1/22/1906 - 6/11/1936) Heart of a Lion, Soul of a Poet

rehfan:

Happy birthday to the bestest writer in the west: Robert E. Howard (1/22/1906 - 6/11/1936)
Heart of a Lion, Soul of a Poet

The ravens circle above our prows
And our chant is the song of the sea.
They hear our oars by a thousand shores
And they know that the North is free.

—Robert E. Howard

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die dogs… I was a man before I was king.

—Conan the Barbarian (via rednav)

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