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I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I
Alternate titles: FROM THE PRIMAL; Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal, I")

I AM THE SPIRIT OF WAR!
Alternate titles: THE SPIRIT OF WAR; Untitled ("I am the Spirit of War!")

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("I am the Spirit of War!") which is the title where the poem was first published.

I CALL THE MUSTER OF IRON MEN
Alternate title: Untitled ("I call the muster of iron men")

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("I call the muster of iron men") which is the title where the poem was first published.

I DO NOT SING OF A PARADISE
Alternate title: Untitled ("I do not sing of a paradise")

I HATE THE MAN WHO TELLS ME THAT I LIED
Alternate title: Untitled ("I hate the man who tells me that I lied")

I HOLD ALL WOMEN ARE A GANG OF TRAMPS
Alternate titles: I HOLD ALL WOMEN; Untitled ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps")

I KNOCKED UPON HER LATTICE – SOFT!
Alternate title: Untitled ("I knocked upon her lattice – soft!")

I LAY IN YEN’S OPIUM JOINT
Alternate titles: Untitled ("I lay in Yen’s opium joint"); YEN'S OPIUM JOINT

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("I lay in Yen’s opium joint") which is the title where the poem was first published.

I PRAISE MY NATIVITY
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("Salaam: / Again glancing ...").

I TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND
Alternate titles: BLASPHEMY; Untitled ("I tell you this, my friend")

ILLUSION

I’M MORE THAN A MAN AND LESS THAN A GOD
Alternate titles: I'M MORE THAN A MAN; Untitled ("I’m more than a man and less than a god")

IN THE RING
Alternate title: Untitled ("Over the place the lights go out")
An original typescript of this poem exists, untitled; on the same page as another untitled draft for "Red Thunder."

AN INCIDENT OF THE MUSCOVY-TURKISH WAR

INSOMNIA
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.

INVECTIVE
Alternate title: Untitled ("There burns in me ....")

INVOCATION
Alternate title: Fifth and last poem in the BLACK DAWN cycle
Two different titled versions are included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed, one 12 lines, one 24.

THE IRON HARP (1, a cycle of five poems)
Alternate titles: VOICES OF THE NIGHT; ECHOING SHADOWS
A cycle of five poems, including "Out of the Deep"; "Babel"; "Laughter in the Gulf"; "Moon Shame"; "A Crown for a King."
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("The Seeker thrust ...").
In a Kline agency list of REH poems it possessed after REH’s death, it is titled "Echoing Shadows" with the five poems listed as "A Drum Begins to Throb," "Babel," "An Echo of Laughter in the Gulfs," "The Moon Woman," and "A Crown for a King."

THE IRON HARP (2, a separate poem)
Alternate title: Fourth poem in the BLACK DAWN cycle

THE IRON HARP THAT ADAM CHRISTENED LIFE
Alternate titles: ADAM'S IRON HARP; Untitled ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life")

THE ISLE OF HY-BRASIL
Alternate titles: HY-BRASIL; SHIPS

There are two early drafts of "Hy-Brasil."
The first draft is titled "The Isle of Hy-Brasil." The second draft is untitled.
The final version is titled "Hy-Brasil."

There also appears to have been another long-lost draft, in between the second and final, that was cut down to create "Ships."
 Lines 1-4 and 20-38 of "Hy-Brasil" are identical to lines 1-4 and 5-22 of "Ships."
All the lines from "Ships" are included in "Hy-Brasil," which is slightly longer, with just a few word changes.

IVORY IN THE NIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early to mid-1929 ("Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist ...").

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