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UNTAMED AVATARS
Alternate title: Untitled ("They break from the pack ...")

UNTITLED ("Abhorrent gods ...")
Alternate title: ABHORRENT GODS

UNTITLED ("Across the wastes of No Man’s Land ...")
Alternate title: NO MAN’S LAND


UNTITLED ("Adam’s loins were mountains")
Alternate title: ADAM’S LOINS WERE MOUNTAINS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

UNTITLED ("Adventure, I have followed your beck")
Alternate titles: ADVENTURE (1); THE CALL OF ADVENTURE
For appearancesof this poem, refer to the main verse listing underADVENTURE (1) which is the title where the poem was firstpublished.

UNTITLED ("After the trumps are sounded")
 Alternate title: AFTER THE TRUMPS ARE SOUNDED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Fall 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said …")

UNTITLED ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands")
 Alternate titles: AGAINST THE BLOOD RED MOON A TOWER STANDS; THE HAUNTED TOWER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca.October 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN ...")


UNTITLED ("The ages stride on golden feet")
Alternate title: THE AGES STRIDE ON GOLDEN FEET


UNTITLED ("Ah, I know black queens ...")
Alternate title: STRANGE PASSION


UNTITLED ("Ah, the rover hides ...")
Alternate title: O THE BRAVE SEA-ROVER


UNTITLED ("Ah, those were glittering, jeweled days")
Alternate title: DAYS OF GLORY


UNTITLED ("All is pose and artifice")
Alternate title: ARTIFICE


UNTITLED ("All men look at life ...")
Alternate title: PERSPECTIVE


UNTITLED ("All the crowd")
Alternate title: ALL THE CROWD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / Say, bo, you're ...")


UNTITLED ("Am-ra stood on amountain height")
Alternate title: SUMMER MORN


UNTITLED ("The ancient boast, theancient song")
Alternate title: THE HOUSE OF GAEL


UNTITLED ("And Bill, he looked at me and said")
Alternate titles: AND BILL, HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID; HARD CHOICES


UNTITLED ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered")
 Alternate title: AND DEMPSEY CLIMBED INTOTHE RING
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib: / What ho, milord!")

UNTITLED ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire")
 Alternate titles: AND THERE WERE LETHAL WOMEN; THE HAREM
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School ...")

UNTITLED ("As a great spider grows to monstrous girth")
Alternate title: JU-JU DOOM


UNTITLED ("As I rode down to Lincoln town")
Alternate title: AS I RODE DOWN TO LINCOLN TOWN


UNTITLED ("As I went down to Salem town ...")
Alternate title: A RHYME OF SALEM TOWN


UNTITLED ("As you dance upon the air")
 Alternate title: AS YOU DANCE UPON THE AIR
Incomplete

UNTITLED ("At the Inn of the GoryDagger, with nothing to ...")
 Alternate title: AT THE INN OF THE GORY DAGGER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel")

UNTITLED ("Away in the dusky barracoon")
Alternate title: CORNISH JACK
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under CORNISH JACK which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The Baron of Fenland sat at ease")
 Alternate titles: THE BARON OF FENLAND;  THE BARON OF FENLAND SAT ATEASE
Included in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid-September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter ...")


UNTITLED ("The baron quaffed a draught of wine ...")
Alternate title: THE BARON AND THE WENCH


UNTITLED ("A beggar, singing without")
 Alternate title: A BEGGAR, SINGING WITHOUT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: Black Dawn");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold")
 Alternate title: BILL BOOZY WAS A PIRATE BOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur")

UNTITLED ("Brazen thewed giant of a grimmer Age")
 Alternate titles: BRAZEN THEWED GIANT; BRAZEN THEWED GIANT OF A GRIMMER AGE
Unfinished

UNTITLED ("The broken walls of Babel")
Alternate title: THE BROKEN WALLS OF BABEL


UNTITLED ("By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop")
 Alternate titles:  BY OLD ABIE GOLDSTEIN’S PAWN SHOP; COME YOU BACK TO RACHEL SHEA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: Black Dawn")

UNTITLED ("The champion sneered ...")
Alternate title: THE CHAMP


UNTITLED ("The chariots were chanting ...")
Alternate title: THE LAST WORDS HE HEARD


UNTITLED ("Chesterton twanged on hislyre")
Alternate title: A SONG OF BARDS


UNTITLED ("A Chinese washer, Ching-Ling")
 Alternate title: A CHINESE WASHER, CHING-LING
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Cities brooding beneath the sea")
Alternate title: WHO IS GRANDPA THEOBOLD?


UNTITLED ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs")
 Alternate titles: A CLASH OF STEEL, A THUD OF HOOFS; THE MONGOLS COME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 ("Clyde Sahib; / You say I'll be in Kabul.")

UNTITLED ("Come with me to the Land of Sunrise")
Alternate title: THE TRAIL OF GOLD


UNTITLED ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard")
 Alternate titles: A CRINGING WOMAN’S LOT IS HARD; A WOMAN BORN TO RULE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights …");


UNTITLED ("Dark are your eyes")
 Alternate title: DARK ARE YOUR EYES
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")

UNTITLED ("The day that towers, ...")
Alternate title: NISAPUR


UNTITLED ("Deep in my bosom ...")
Alternate title:  MY ANIMAL INSTINCT



UNTITLED ("The doine sidhe sang to our swords ...")
Alternate title: COUNTERSPELLS


UNTITLED ("Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs")
 Alternate titles: BAD CHOICES; DRAWERS THAT A GIRL STRIPS DOWN HER THIGHS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I got such a laugh ...")

UNTITLED ("Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies")
 Alternate title: EARLY IN THE MORNING I GAZED AT THE EASTERN SKIES
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam; / I’m trying to write again ...");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("The east is red and I am dead")
 Alternate titles: THE EAST ISRED AND I AM DEAD; THE MORNING AFTER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("The elder gods have fled")
Alternate title: PASSING OF THE ELDER GODS


UNTITLED ("Eons before the Atlantean days ...")
Alternate title: THE SYMBOL

UNTITLED ("Far in the gloomy northland")
Alternate title: FAR IN THE GLOOMY NORTHLAND
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under FAR IN THE GLOOMY NORTHLAND whichis the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Favored child of a lucky star ...")
Alternate titles: A NEGRO GIRL; SONGS OF HARLEM
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A NEGRO GIRL which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Fill up my goblet ...")
Alternate titles: FILL UP MY GOBLET
The last eight lines of this poem were used by REH as a verse heading for the story "Sowers of the Thunder" where they were titled "The Ballad of Baibars."
Alternate titles: SOWERS OF THE THUNDER (verse heading); THE BALLAD OF BAIBARS

UNTITLED ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt")
 Alternate titles: FLAPPERS; FLAPPERS FLICKER AND FLAP AND FLIRT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s ...")

UNTITLED ("For I have seen the lizards crawl")
Alternate title: BABYLON
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under BABYLON which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("For I have watched the lizards crawl")
Alternate title: LOST NISAPUR
Similar to the draft of "Babylon," but with that city replaced with "Nisapur," and all other appropriate references changed.


UNTITLED ("For I, with the ...")
Alternate title: THE DUST DANCE (1)


UNTITLED ("For what is a maid to theshout of kings?")
 Alternate title: FOR WHAT IS A MAID TO THE SHOUT OF KINGS?
Incomplete

UNTITLED ("Forever down the ages")
Alternate title: DOWN THE AGES


UNTITLED ("Forth from the purple ...")
Alternate title: THE OUTCAST


UNTITLED ("From the dim red dawn of Creation")
Alternate title: MEN OF THE SHADOWS (verse heading)


UNTITLED ("From the North's blue deep ...")
Alternate title: THE SONG OF HORSA’S GALLEY
From a letter to unknown recipient, undated, unsent, ("Salaam; Seems that you owe me a letter …")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE SONG OF HORSA’S GALLEY which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meger")
 Alternate titles: GIVE YE OF MY BEST THOUGH THE DOLE BE MEGER; FORBODINGS OF A BLOODY REVOLUTION
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam; / I’m trying to write again ...")

UNTITLED ("Gods of heather, gods of lake")
Alternate titles: RUNE; RUNE OF THE ANCIENT ONE
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under RUNE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The great gray oaks ...")
Alternate title: THE OAKS


UNTITLED ("Hark, hark, the jackals bark")
Alternate title: MADAM GOOSE’S RHYMES


UNTITLED ("A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing")
 Alternate titles: A HAUNTING CADENCE; A HAUNTING CADENCE FILLS THE NIGHT WITH FIERCE LONGING
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School ...");
Titled  with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("He clutched his penis tight")
 Alternate titles: HE CLUTCHED HIS PENIS TIGHT; LONELY NIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear ...")

UNTITLED ("He did not glance above the trail ...")
Alternate title: THE FEUD


UNTITLED ("He has rigged her and tricked her")
Alternate title: THE STRALSUND


UNTITLED ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo")
 Alternate titles: THE HELMSMEN; THE HELMSMAN GAILY, RODE DOWN THE RICKERBOO
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your …")

UNTITLED ("Here where the post-oaks ...")
Alternate title: THE SAND-HILLS’ CREST

UNTITLED ("A high land anda hill land!")
Alternate titles: A HIGH LAND; A HIGH LAND AND A HILL LAND!

UNTITLED ("High on his throne Baal-Pteor sat")
Alternate title: BAAL-PTEOR


UNTITLED ("High on his throne sat Bran Mak Morn")
Alternate title: A SONG OF THE RACE


UNTITLED ("High the towers and mighty ...")
Alternate title: WHO SHALL SING OF BABYLON?


UNTITLED ("Hills of the North!Lavender hills")
 Alternate titles: HILLS OF THE NORTH!  HILLS OF THE NORTH! LAVENDER HILLS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")

UNTITLED ("Ho, for a trail that isbloody and long!")
Alternate title: TRAIL’S END


UNTITLED ("Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain")
 Alternate title: HO, HO, THE LONG LIGHTS LIFT AMAIN
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Ho, ho, the long lights ...")
This poem is an early untitled draft of A SONG OUT OF THE EAST.

UNTITLED ("Ho merry bark, let’s go.")
 Alternate title: HO MERRY BARK, LET’S GO
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.
 Although this poem appears in Robert E. Howard's self-published fanzine, THE RIGHT HOOK, it is not actually written by REH.
The verse is actually from a poem called "Canoe Song of the North" by Chester Firkins.
It was published in THE ALL-STORY dated September 1911 where REH may have seen it.


UNTITLED ("The House of Asgaard passes ...")
Alternate title: NO MORE THE SERPENT PROW


UNTITLED ("How can I wear the harness of toil")
Alternate title: THE DRUMS OF PICTDOM


UNTITLED ("How long have you written, Eddie Guest?")
Alternate title: EDGAR GUEST


UNTITLED ("How your right thudded on my jaw.")
Alternate title: SLUGGER'S VOW


UNTITLED ("A hundred years the great war raged")
 Alternate title: A HUNDRED YEARS THE GREAT WAR RAGED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 ("Clyde Sahib; / You say I'll be in Kabul.");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("I am a Devon oak")
Alternate title: DEVON OAK


UNTITLED ("I am an actor ...")
Alternate title: THE ACTOR
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE ACTOR which is the title where the poem was first published.
UNTITLED ("I am MAN from the primal, I")
 Alternate titles: FROM THE PRIMAL;  I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Not having much …")


UNTITLED ("I am the Spirit of War!")
 Alternate titles: I AM THE SPIRIT OF WAR!; THE SPIRIT OF WAR
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")

UNTITLED ("I call the muster of iron men")
From an early draft of "Crowd-Horror."
Below are listed appearances apart from the story.
Alternate title: I CALL THE MUSTER OF IRON MEN


UNTITLED ("I can recall a quiet sky ...")
Alternate title: A DAWN IN FLANDERS


UNTITLED ("I carved a woman out of marble when")
Alternate title: FLAMING MARBLE
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under FLAMING MARBLE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("I caught Joan alone upon her bed")
Alternate title: PRELUDE


UNTITLED ("I cut my teeth on toiland pain")
Alternate title: WHEN THE GLACIERS RUMBLED SOUTH


UNTITLED ("I do not sing of a paradise")
 Alternate title: I DO NOT SING OF A PARADISE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("I hate the man who tells me that I lied")
 Alternate title: I HATE THE MAN WHO TELLS ME THAT I LIED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

UNTITLED ("I heard the drum as I went ...")
Alternate title: THE DRUM


UNTITLED ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps")
 Alternate titles: I HOLD ALL WOMEN; I HOLD ALL WOMEN ARE A GANG OF TRAMPS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s ...")

UNTITLED ("I knocked upon her lattice – soft!")
 Alternate title: I KNOCKED UPON HER LATTICE – SOFT!
This poem is at the end of Act I, Scene I of "Songs of Bastards";
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("I lay in Yen’s opiumjoint")
 Alternate titles: I LAY IN YEN’S OPIUM JOINT; YEN'S OPIUM JOINT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")


UNTITLED ("I saw the grass on the hillside bend")
Alternate title: DANCE MACABRE


UNTITLED ("I stand in the streets of the city")
Alternate title: THE KING OF THE AGES COMES


UNTITLED ("I tell you this, my friend")
 Alternate titles: BLASPHEMY; I TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 ("Salaam: / I’m glad you passed ...")

UNTITLED ("I too have strode those white-paved roads")
Alternate title: ROADS


UNTITLED ("I was a chief of the Chatagai")
Alternate title: A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A THOUSAND YEARSAGO which is the title where the poem was firstpublished.


UNTITLED ("I was a prince of China, ...")
Alternate title: PRINCE AND BEGGAR


UNTITLED ("I, was I there")
Alternate title: WAS I THERE?


UNTITLED ("I was once, I declare, a grog-shop man")
Alternate title: A BALLAD OF BEER
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing underA BALLAD OF BEER which is the title where the poem wasfirst published.

UNTITLED ("I’m more than a man and less than a god")
 Alternate titles: I'M MORE THAN A MAN; I’M MORE THAN A MAN AND LESS THAN A GOD
Contained in the single page of draft of the story "Yellow Laughter"
Note: Collected Poetry Volume 2 (2nd edition) has the first line as "I'm more than a man and more than a god" in error.

UNTITLED ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life")
 Alternate titles: ADAM'S IRON HARP; THE IRON HARP THAT ADAM CHRISTENED LIFE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam christened Life ...")

UNTITLED ("A jackal laughed from a thicket still, ...")
Alternate title: FLIGHT
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under FLIGHT which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands")
 Alternate titles: DARK DESIRES; KEEP WOMEN, THRONES AND KINGLY LANDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("Keresa, Keresita")
Alternate title: KERESA, KERESITA


UNTITLED ("Let it rest with the ages mysteries")
 Alternate title: LET IT REST WITH THE AGE MYSTERIES
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1931 ("Fear Finn:/ I wrote Bradford ...");
May or may not actually be by REH, he may in fact be quoting someone else, possible a variation of a Robert Louis Stevenson verse;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Let me live as I was born to live")
 Alternate title: LET ME LIVE AS I WAS BORNTO LIVE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

UNTITLED ("Let us up in the hills together")
 Alternate title: LET US UP IN THE HILLS TOGETHER
This poem is at the end of Act I, Scene II of "Songs of Bastards."
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn").
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Life is a cynical, romantic pig")
 Alternate title: LIFE IS A CYNICAL, ROMANTIC PIG
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1930 ("Salaam, Fear Ohghruagach ...")

UNTITLED ("Life is a lot of hooey")
 Alternate title: LIFE IS A LOT OF HOOEY
This poem is contained in Act II, Scene I of "Songs of Bastards";
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Life is a ladder ...")
Alternate title: THE LADDER OF LIFE


UNTITLED ("Life is the same ...")
Alternate title: THE PHASES OF LIFE


UNTITLED ("Little brown man of Nippon ...")
Alternate title: LITTLE BROWN MAN OF NIPPON


UNTITLED ("Lizzen my children and you shall be told")
 Alternate titles: LIZZEN MY CHILDREN; LIZZEN MY CHILDREN AND YOU SHALL BE TOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children ...")

UNTITLED ("Long ere Priapus ...")
Alternate title: THE GODS OF EASTER ISLAND


UNTITLED ("Long were the years ...")
Alternate title: THE ECSTASY OF DESOLATION


UNTITLED ("Love is singing soft and low")
 Alternate title: LOVE IS SINGING SOFT AND LOW
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s ...")

UNTITLED ("Mahomet! Man of Mecca!")
Alternate title: MAHOMET


UNTITLED ("Many fell at the grog-shop wall")
 Alternate titles: THE GROG-SHOP WALL; MANY FELL AT THE GROG-SHOP WALL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Have you heard anything ...")

UNTITLED ("The Master beat on his master-drum")
Alternate title: THE MASTER-DRUM


UNTITLED ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk")
 Alternate titles: APOLOGIES; MATCH A TOAD WITH A FAR-WINGED HAWK
From an undated, enclosed separate document sent with a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith ("Poem penned by Akbar Ali ...")

UNTITLED ("Men are toys on a godling’s string")
 Alternate title: MEN ARE TOYS ON A GODLING’S STRING
This poem is contained in "Songs of Bastards."
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn").
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Men I have slain with naked steel")
Alternate title: THE SWORD OF LAL SINGH


UNTITLED ("Men say my years are few, yet I am old")
Alternate title: THE GUISE OF YOUTH


UNTITLED ("The menthat walk with Satan")
Alternate title: THE MEN THAT WALK WITH SATAN

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE MEN THAT WALK WITH SATAN which is the title where the poem was first published.


UNTITLED ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand")
 Alternate titles: MINGLE MY DUST; MINGLE MY DUST WITH THE BURNING BRAND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925 ("Salaam; / I’ve been thinking.")

UNTITLED ("The moon above the Kerry hills ...")
Alternate titles: BLACK MICHAEL’S STORY; THE SONG OF MURTAGH O’BRIEN; RETRIBUTION


UNTITLED ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land")
 Alternate title: MOONLIGHT AND SHADOWS BARRED THE LAND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 ("Salaam: / I swear, if I’d laughed ...");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("The moonlight glimmered white ...")
Alternate title: MINE BUT TO SERVE


UNTITLED ("Moses was our leader ...")
Alternate title: THE ODYSSEY OF ISRAEL


UNTITLED ("Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool")
 Alternate titles: MOTHER EVE; MOTHER EVE, MOTHER EVE, I NAME YOU A FOOL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("Murky the night")
 Alternate title: MURKY THE NIGHT
Incomplete; actually titled "Untitled"

UNTITLED ("My brother he was an auctioneer")
 Alternate title: MY BROTHER HE WAS A AUCTIONEER
Originally believed to be from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!" ).
It was later determined to actually be from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen you …") and part of the poem "The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore."

UNTITLED ("My brothers are blond and calm of speech")
Alternate title: ALIEN

UNTITLED ("My empty skull is full of dust")
Alternate title: A POET’S SKULL


UNTITLED ("My heart is a silver drum tonight")
Alternate title: THE CALL OF PAN


UNTITLED ("My name is Baal ...")
Alternate title: BAAL


UNTITLED ("Night falls")
Alternate title: NOCTURNE


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


UNTITLED ("The night winds whisper ...")
Alternate title: THE NIGHT WINDS


UNTITLED ("‘No more!’ they swear ...")
Alternate title: THE LEGACY OF TUBAL-CAIN


UNTITLED ("Noah was my applesauce")
 Alternate titles: NOAH WAS MY APPLESAUCE; PRAISES OF A LUNATIC
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear ...")

UNTITLED ("Now anthropoid and leprous shadows lope")
Alternate title: ALL HALLOWS EVE
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under ALL HALLOWS EVE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped")
 Alternate titles: NOW BRIGHT, NOW RED, THE SABERS SPED; THE SWORD OF YAR ALI KHAN
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your ...")

UNTITLED ("Now come the days of high ...")
Alternate title: A FABLE FOR CRITICS


UNTITLED ("Now hark to this tale of long ago")
Alternate title: WHEN MEN WERE BOLD


UNTITLED ("Now is a summer come out ofthe sea")
Alternate title: BUT THE HILLS WERE ANCIENT THEN


UNTITLED ("Now that the kings have fallen")
Alternate title: WHERE ARE YOUR KNIGHTS, DONN OTHNA?


Untitled ("Now the stars are all gleaming")
Alternate title: NOW THE STARS ARE ALL GLEAMING
 Included in a letter to Robert W. Gordon, postmarked May 14, 1928.
Inadvertently left out of COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("O’er lakes agleam ...")
Alternate title: CHANT OF THE WHITE BEARD
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under CHANT OF THE WHITE BEARD which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Oh, the road to glory lay")
A poem that is contained in "The Pit of the Serpent" and appears with all publications of that story.
Below are listed appearances apart from the story.
 Alternate title: OH, THE ROAD TO GLORY LAY

Attributed to Steve Costigan’s fictional shipmate Hansen.
Appears to be a short takeoff from "The Battle of Manila Bay," 1904, an epic poem about an American sea victory.



UNTITLED ("Oh, we are little children, marching on to Hell!")
 Alternate titles: OH, WE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN; OH, WE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN, MARCHING ON TO HELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls." 


UNTITLED ("Oh, ye who tread the narrow way")
Alternate title: EXHORTATION


UNTITLED ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might")
 Alternate title: OLD FARO BILL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I’ve sold ...").
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("One slept beneath the branches dim")
Alternate title: THE RETURN OF SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE


UNTITLED ("Out in front of Goldestein’s, over by the Loop")
 Alternate titles: DANCING AT GOLDSTEIN'S;  OUT IN FRONT OF GOLDSTEIN’S, OVER BY THE LOOP
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s ...")

UNTITLED ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came")
 Alternate titles: OUT OF ASIA;  OUT OF ASIA THE TRIBESMEN CAME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur")

UNTITLED ("Out of the Texas desert ...")
Alternate title: THE BANDIT


UNTITLED ("Over the hills the winds ...")
Alternate title: THE WINDS OF THE SEA
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE WINDS OF THE SEA which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Over the old Rio Grandey")
Alternate title: OVER THE OLD RIO GRANDEY


UNTITLED ("Over the place thelights go out")
Alternate title: IN THE RING


UNTITLED ("Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze")
 Alternate titles: MEXICAN VACATION; PALM-TREES ARE WAVING IN THE GULF-BREEZE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, September 7, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde, / You ought to be here.")

UNTITLED ("Rattle of drums")
Alternate title: RATTLE OF DRUMS


UNTITLED ("Rebel souls from the falling dark")
 Alternate title: REBEL SOULS FROM THE FALLING DARK
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I’ve sold ...");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Red swirls of dust")
Alternate title: THE PLAINS OF GILBAN


UNTITLED ("Rise to the peak ofthe ladder")
Alternate title: NEVER BEYOND THE BEAST


UNTITLED ("The road to Hell")
Alternate title: THE ROAD TO HELL


UNTITLED ("Roar, silver trumpets")
Alternate title: ROAR, SILVER TRUMPETS


UNTITLED ("Romona! Romona!")
 Alternate title: ROMONA! ROMONA!
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!" / Sappho. the Grecian ...)


UNTITLED ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair")
 Alternate titles: ROSES LAUGHED IN HER PRETTY HAIR; A BETTER HAND TO HOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925 ("Salaam; / I’ve been thinking.").
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY and A WORD FROM THE OUTER DARK.

UNTITLED ("A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne")
 Alternate titles: A SAPPE THER WOS; A SAPPE THER WOS AND THAT A CRUMBE MANNE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I’ve sold ...")

UNTITLED ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold")
 Alternate titles: SAPPHO, THE GRECIAN HILLS ARE GOLD; TWO WORLDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!" / Sappho, the Grecian ...)

UNTITLED ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight")
 Alternate titles: THE FAR LANDS CALL;  SCARLET AND GOLD ARE THE STARS TONIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I’ve sold ...")

UNTITLED ("The scarlet standards of the sun")
Alternate title: THE ADVENTURER’S MISTRESS (1)
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE ADVENTURER’S MISTRESS (1) which is the title wherethe poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("A sea of molten silver")
Alternate title: THE SANDS OF THE DESERT


UNTITLED ("Seven kings of the grey old cities")
Alternate title: SEVEN KINGS
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under SEVEN KINGS which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The shades of night were falling faster")
 Alternate titles: THE COY MAID; THE SHADES OF NIGHT WERE FALLING FASTER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood ...")

UNTITLED (draft, "She came in the dim of ...")
Alternate title: A CHALLENGE TO BAST
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A CHALLENGE TO BAST which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Silence falls on Mecca’s walls")
Alternate title: SILENCE FALLS ON MECCA’S WALLS


UNTITLED ("Slow shifts the sands of time ...")
Alternate title: THE SANDS OF TIME


UNTITLED ("The snow-capped peaks of Ural ...")
Alternate title: THE TARTAR RAID


UNTITLED ("The spiders of weariness come on me")
 Alternate titles: THE SPIDERS OF WEARINESS COME ON ME; THE SPIDERS OF WEARINESS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you’re writing ...")


UNTITLED ("The standards toss in pride ...")
Alternate title: THE GODS I WORSHIPPED


UNTITLED ("The stars beat up ...")
Alternate titles: THE HEART OF THE SEA’S DESIRE; MATE OF THE SEA
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE HEART OF THE SEA’S DESIRE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Stay not from me, that veil ...")
Alternate titles: STAY NOT FROM ME; SHADOW OF DREAMS


UNTITLED ("A sturdy housewife was ...")
Alternate title: GOOD MISTRESS BROWN


UNTITLED ("Swift with your mitts")
Alternate title: TIME, THE VICTOR


UNTITLED ("Swords glimmered up the pass")
 Alternate titles: THE LAST TWO TO DIE;  SWORDS GLIMMERED UP THE PASS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear ...")

UNTITLED ("Take some honey from a cat")
 Alternate title: TAKE SOME HONEY FROM A CAT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN ...")

UNTITLED ("The tall man answered:")
 Alternate titles: THE ANCIENT PEOPLE; THE TALL MAN ANSWERED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I'd laughed ...")
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls"

UNTITLED ("The tall man rose and said:")
 Alternate titles: A TOAST; THE TALL MAN ROSE AND SAID
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I'd laughed ...")
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls"

UNTITLED ("The tall man said:")
 Alternate titles: MEALTIME INVITATION; THE TALL MAN SAID
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I'd laughed ...")
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls"

UNTITLED ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers")
 Alternate title: TELL ME NOT IN COOCOO NUMBERS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid to late September 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance ...")
Contained in the story "The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu."

UNTITLED ("Then Stein the peddler with rising joy")
 Alternate titles: STEIN THE PEDDLER;  THEN STEIN THE PEDDLER WITH RISING JOY
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1930 ("Salaam, Fear Finn: / Then Stein the peddler ...")

UNTITLED ("There are grim things did")
 Alternate titles: THERE ARE GRIM THINGS DID; THE_BALLAD OF SINGAPORENELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. after July 1925, before 1930, probably ca. early 1929, ("Salaam: / There once was a wicked ...");
This is au untitled draft version of THE BALLAD OF SINGAPORE NELL.

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under THE BALLAD OF SINGAPORE NELL which is the title where the poem was first published.

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


UNTITLED ("There come long days ...")
Alternate title: AN OUTWORN STORY
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under AN OUTWORN STORY which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("There is a misty sea ...")
Alternate title: A MISTY SEA


UNTITLED ("There is a sea and a silent moon")
Alternate title: THE GHOST OCEAN


UNTITLED ("There is a strangeness in my soul")
Alternate title: ECSTASY


UNTITLED ("There once was a wickedold elf")
 Alternate titles: THE WICKED OLD ELF; THERE ONCE WAS A WICKED OLD ELF
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca.after July 1925, before 1930, probably ca. early 1929 ("Salaam: / There once was a wicked ...")

UNTITLED ("There was a thing of the shadow world")
Alternate title: SHADOW THING


UNTITLED ("There was a young girlfrom Siberia")
Alternate title: LIMERICKS TO SPANK BY


UNTITLED ("There was an old dick")
 Alternate title: THERE WAS AN OLD DICK
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn").
Contained in the untitled story ("Hatrack!").
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("There were three lads who went their destined ways")
 Alternate titles: THERE WERE THREE LADS; THERE WERE THREE LADS WHO WENT THEIR DESTINED WAYS
From an undated, enclosed separate document sent with a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith: "I’ve done my part in writing it."


UNTITLED ("There’s a bell that hangs in a hidden cave")
Alternate title: THE BELL OF MORNI


UNTITLED ("There’s a calling, and a calling …")
Alternate title: A CALLING TO ROME


UNTITLED ("There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea")
 Alternate titles: AN ISLE FAR AWAY; THERE’S AN ISLE FAR AWAY ON THE BREAST OF THE SEA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s ...")

UNTITLED ("They break from the pack ...")
Alternate title: UNTAMED AVATARS


UNTITLED ("They cast her out of the ...")
Alternate title: DAUGHTER OF EVIL


UNTITLED ("They gave me a dollar ...")
Alternate title: SONG OF A FUGITIVE BARD


UNTITLED ("They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright")
 Alternate titles: FIGHTING THE ANACONDA KID; THEY MATCHED ME UP THAT NIGHTWITH A BIRD THAT WAS A FRIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights ...")

UNTITLED ("They were there, in the distance dreaming")
 Alternate titles: MINERS; THEY WERE THERE, IN THE DISTANCE DREAMING
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft, April 23, 1933 ("I’m enclosing some of the latest views ...")

UNTITLED ("This is a young world")
 Alternate title: THIS IS A YOUNG WORLD

UNTITLED ("This is no land for weaklings, ...")
Alternate title: ZULULAND


UNTITLED ("This is the tale of a nameless fight")
Alternate title: THE BALLAD OF KING GERAINT


UNTITLED ("This is the talethe Kaffirs tell ...")
Alternate title: THE ZULU LORD


 UNTITLED ("Thomas Fitzgerald, Shane O'Neill")
Alternate title: BLACK HARPS IN THE HILLS
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under BLACK HARPS IN THE HILLS which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Thorfinn, Thorfinn, where have you been?")
Alternate title: THE RETURN OF THE SEA-FARER


UNTITLED ("A thousand years ago great Genghis reigned")
Alternate title: KRAKORUM


UNTITLED ("A thousand years, perhaps, have come and gone")
Alternate title: WHEN DEATH DROPS HER VEIL


UNTITLED ("Through the mists of silence there came a sound")
 Alternate titles: THROUGH THE MISTS OF SILENCE; THROUGH THE MISTS OF SILENCE THERE CAME A SOUND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School ...")

UNTITLED ("Thus in my mood I love you")
Alternate titles: THE TIDE; TO A WOMAN (3)
For appearances of thispoem, refer to the main verse listing under THE TIDE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The times, the times stride on apace and fast")
 Alternate titles: OLD MEMORIES OF ADVENTURE;  THE TIMES, THE TIMES STRIDE ON APACE AND FAST
This poem was originally handwritten on the endpapers of Tevis Clyde Smith’s copy of P.C. Wren’s BEAU GESTE.
The appearance in AUSTIN is a facsimile reproduction of the handwritten version.
The appearance in THE NEW HOWARD READER is retypeset.


UNTITLED ("Tingle, jingle, dingle, tingle ...")
Alternate title: LITTLE BELL OF BRASS


UNTITLED ("Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell")
 Alternate titles: TOAST TO THE BRITISH!; TOAST TO THE BRITISH! DAMN THEIR SOULS TO HELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN ...")

UNTITLED ("Topaz seas and laughing skies")
Alternate title: SEA-CHANT


UNTITLED ("Tread not where stony deserts hold")
 Alternate title: TREAD NOT WHERE STONY DESERTS HOLD
Originally from an early draft of "The Children of the Night," attributed to Justin Geoffrey.
The poem was replaced in the final version with two lines from "The Gates of Damascus" by James Flecker.
The poem was added by August Derleth to his version of "The House in the Oaks."
 Below are listed appearances apart from the Derleth version of "The House in the Oaks."

UNTITLED ("The tribes of men rise upand pass")
Alternate title: ONLY A SHADOW ON THE GRASS


UNTITLED ("‘Turn out the light.’ Iraised a willing hand")
Alternate title: DESIRE


UNTITLED ("’Twas twice a hundred centuries ago")
Alternate title: NOW AND THEN


UNTITLED ("Under the grim San Saba hills")
Alternate titles: THE LOST SAN SABA MINE; THE LOST MINE


UNTITLED ("Up over the cromlech ...")
Alternate title: THE PHANTOMS GATHER


UNTITLED ("Up with the curtain, lo, ...")
Alternate title: ON WITH THE PLAY


UNTITLED ("The warm veldt spread ...")
Alternate title: THE CHIEF OF THE MATABELES


UNTITLED ("We are the duckers of crosses")
 Alternate titles: THE DUCKERS OF CROSSES; WE ARE THE DUCKERS OF CROSSES
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood ...")

UNTITLED ("We are they")
Alternate titles: A SONG OF DEFEAT; THE SONGS OF DEFEAT
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A SONG OF DEFEAT which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("We reap and bind the bitter yield")
Alternate title: HARVEST


UNTITLED ("We, the winds that walk the world")
Alternate title: THE WINDS THAT WALK THE WORLD


UNTITLED ("We’re a jolly good bunch of buns")
Alternate title: CODE


UNTITLED ("What’s become of Waring")
 Alternate title: WHAT’S BECOME OF WARING
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Fall 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said ...")

UNTITLED ("When I was a youth")
Alternate title: WHEN I WAS A YOUTH


UNTITLED ("When Napoleon down in Africa")
 Alternate title: WHEN NAPOLEON DOWN IN AFRICA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 8, 1923 ("Hello Clyde, / May the blessings ...")

UNTITLED ("When the first winds of summer ...")
Alternate title: TO HARRY THE OLIAD MAN


UNTITLED ("When wolf meets wolf")
Alternate title: WHEN WOLF MEETS WOLF


UNTITLED ("When you were a set-up and I was a ham")
Alternate title: WHEN YOU WERE A SET-UP AND I WAS A HAM


UNTITLED ("Where the jungles lay dank, exuding")
Alternate title: WHEN THE GODS WERE KINGS


UNTITLED ("Who is Grandpa Theobold?")
Alternate title: WHO IS GRANDPA THEOBOLD?


UNTITLED ("Wide and free ranging ...")
Alternate title: THE DESERT


UNTITLED ("The wild bees hum ...")
Alternate title: LAND OF THE PIONEER


UNTITLED ("The wine in my cup is ...")
Alternate title: A SONG FROM AN EBONY HEART


UNTITLED ("A wizard who dwelt in Drumnakill")
Alternate title: MYSTIC LORE


UNTITLED ("Wolf on the height")
Alternate title: SONG OF THE PICT
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under SONG OF THE PICT which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The women come and the women go")
Alternate title: THE SLAYER


UNTITLED ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea")
 Alternate titles: BACK TO THE PRIMATIVE; THE WORLD GOES BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE, YEA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("The world has changed")
Alternate title: MANKIND


UNTITLED ("The world is rife, say I")
Alternate title: FREEDOM


UNTITLED ("The years are as a knife ...")
Alternate title: THE YEARS ARE AS A KNIFE


UNTITLED ("You have built a world of paper and wood")
Alternate title: A WARNING (partial verse)
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under AWARNING (partial verse) which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("You lolled in gardens where breezes fanned")
Alternate title: A SONG OF THE NAKED LANDS
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A SONG OF THE NAKED LANDS which is the title where the poem was first published.

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