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A FABLE FOR CRITICS
Alternate title: Untitled ("Now come the days of high ...")
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!").

THE FABLE OF CONCEIT
A poem title that is included in a Kline agency list of REH poems it possessed after REH’s death, but no copy exists today.


FABLES FOR LITTLE FOLKS

A FAR COUNTRY
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

FAR IN THE GLOOMY NORTHLAND
Alternate title: Untitled ("Far in the gloomy northland")

THE FAR LANDS CALL
Alternate titles: SCARLET AND GOLD ARE THE STARS TONIGHT; Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight")
 
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FAREWELL, PROUD MUNSTER
Alternate title: Untitled ("Night in the county of Donegal")

"FEACH AIR MUIR LIONADHI GEALACH BUIDHE MAR OR"

THE FEAR THAT FOLLOWS

THE FEARSOME TOUCH OF DEATH
(verse heading, appearances apart from the story)


For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under PARODY which is the title where the poem was first published.



FIGHTING THE ANACONDA KID
Alternate titles: THEY MATCHED ME UP THAT NIGHT WITH A BIRD THAT WAS A FRIGHT; Untitled ("They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright") which is the title where the poem was first published.  

FILL UP MY GOBLET
 Alternate titles: Untitled ("Fill up my goblet ...")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("Fill up my goblet ...") which is the title where the poem was first published. 

FITZSIMMON’S TALE
A poem title that is included in a Kline agency list of REH poems it possessed after REH’s death, but no copy exists today.


FLAMING MARBLE
Alternate title: Untitled ("I carved a woman out of marble when")
Also in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!")
There is also a short prose piece with the same title, but it is a completely different poem.
There is also an alternate version of this poem.
In the alternate version, the 10th line is 'She broke the crystal gong of mortal pride"; and in the 12th line "took" is replaced with "claimed."

FLAPPERS
Alternate titles: FLAPPERS FLICKER AND FLAP AND FLIRT;  Untitled ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FLAPPERS FLICKER AND FLAP AND FLIRT
Alternate titles: FLAPPERS;  Untitled ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FLIGHT
Alternate title: Untitled ("A jackal laughed from a thicket still, ...")

An early incomplete version is from an untitled draft of the poem that appeared in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid-September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter …").
A later incomplete version, also untitled, is from a letter To Unknown Recipient, ca. late 1927, unsent (“Salaam; / Seems that you owe me a letter ...”)
The early incomplete untitled draft consists of lines 1-4, 9-16, 29-40, 45-48.
The later incomplete untitled draft consists of lines 1-16, 29-32, 45-48.
 

FLINT’S PASSING
 

THE FLOOD
Alternate title: TO THE EVANGELISTS
 
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under TO THE EVANGELISTS which is the title where the poem was first published.


THE FOLLOWER
 

FOR MAN WAS GIVEN THE EARTH TO RULE
Alternate titles: AND MAN WAS GIVEN THE EARTH TO RULE; THE OLD GODS BROOD
Mistakenly listed as "And Man was Given the Earth to Rule" in the Table of Contents of FANTASY BOOK.
This poem was included in the proposed poetry collection IMAGES OUT OF THE SKY by REH, Tevis Clyde Smith, and Lenore Preece, as "For Man Was Given the Earth to Rule."
The title "The Old Gods Brood" is from Glenn Lord, as the first version of this poem he saw as an untitled typescript.
An earlier untitled draft also exists for this poem.
The draft contains one additional line as well as other wording differences.
  

FOR WHAT IS A MAID TO THE SHOUT OF KINGS?
Alternate title: Untitled ("For what is a maid to the shout of kings?")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("For what is a maid to the shout of kings?") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FORBIDDEN MAGIC
This poem was included in the proposed poetry collection IMAGES OUT OF THE SKY by REH, Tevis Clyde Smith, and Lenore Preece.

FORBODINGS OF A BLOODY REVOLUTION
Alternate titles: GIVE YE OF MY BEST THOUGH THE DOLE BE MEGER;  Untitled ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meger")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meger") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FORGOTTEN GODS
A poem title that is included in a Kline agency list of REH poems it possessed after REH’s death, but no copy exists today.


FRAGMENT

FREEDOM
Alternate title: Untitled ("The world is rife, say I")
The original typescript is untitled. The title is likely from Glenn Lord.

FROM THE PRIMAL
Alternate titles: I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I; Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal, I")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal, I") which is the title where the poem was first published.

FUTILITY (1, "Golden goats ...")
Alternate title: MOONLIGHT ON A SKULL
"Futility" (1) is virtually identical to "Moonlight on a Skull."

FUTILITY (2, "Time races on ...")


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