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THE WANDERER
Incomplete

THE WANDERLUST
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.


WAR TO THE BLIND
 

A WARNING (complete verse)
The complete version is somewhat different from the partial.
The complete version contains 24 lines.
The partial is only 16 lines, with lines 1-2, 5-8, and 13-16 being identical to lines 9-10, 17-20, and 21-24, respectively.

A WARNING (partial verse, "You have built a world of paper and wood")
Alternate title: Untitled ("You have built a world of paper and wood")
From a letter to August Derleth, May 9, 1936, ("I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths ...").
The complete version contains 24 lines.
The partial is only 16 lines, with lines 1-2, 5-8, and 13-16 being identical to lines 9-10, 17-20, and 21-24, respectively.

A WARNING TO ORTHODOXY
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1928 ("Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy").

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

WE ARE THE DUCKERS OF CROSSES
Alternate titles: THE DUCKERS OF CROSSES; Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses") which is the title where the poem was first published.

THE WEAKLING
 

A WEIRD BALLAD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1932 ("Fear Finn: / I heard from that bone-crushing ...").

WEST
 

WHAT IS LOVE?
 

WHAT’S BECOME OF WARING
Alternate title: Untitled ("What’s become of Waring")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("What’s become of Waring") which is the title where the poem was first published.  

THE WHEEL OF DESTINY
Alternate title: DOOM
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed.

WHEN ARTHUR RIDES AGAIN
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.


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

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

WHEN I WAS IN AFRICA
 

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

WHEN NAPOLEON DOWN IN AFRICA
Alternate title: Untitled ("When Napoleon down in Africa")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("When Napoleon down in Africa") which is the title where the poem was first published.  

WHEN THE GLACIERS RUMBLED SOUTH
Alternate title: Untitled ("I cut my teeth on toil and pain")
 

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

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

WHEN YOU WERE A SET-UP AND I WAS A HAM
Alternate title: Untitled ("When you were a set-up and I was a ham")
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 ("Salaam; / Hot zowie, old topper …").

WHENCE COMETH ERLIK?
A untitled poem from the Glenn Lord collection.

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

WHICH WILL SCARCELY BE UNDERSTOOD
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed, includes a note that it was sold to WEIRD TALES.


WHISPERS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930 ("Well Fear Finn: / I trust you are ...").

WHISPERS ON THE NIGHTWINDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1930 ("Well, Fear Finn, you mention ...").

WHITE THUNDER

WHO IS GRANDPA THEOBOLD?
Alternate title: Untitled ("Cities brooding beneath the seas")
Originally untitled, from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1931 ("Fear Finn: / I wrote Bradford ...").

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

THE WHOOPANSAT OF HUMOROUS KOOKOOYAM

THE WICKED OLD ELF
Alternate titles: THERE ONCE WAS A WICKED OLD ELF; Untitled ("There once was a wicked old elf")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("There once was a wicked old elf") which is the title where the poem was first published.

THE WIND BLOWS (1)

THE WIND BLOWS (2)
An alternate version.

THE WINDS OF THE SEA
Alternate title: Untitled ("Over the hills the winds …")
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("The Seeker thrust ...")
There are three versions of this poem.
Version 1 contains 16 lines.
Version 2 contains 14 lines. It is identical to Version 1 except the last two lines are omitted.
Version 3 contains 14 lines. It is an earlier draft that omits the last two lines because REH ran out of room on the page.
Additionally, in Line 10, "rising" is replaced with "glowing"; and, in Line 11, "And" is not included at the start of the line.


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

THE WITCH

A WOMAN BORN TO RULE
Alternate titles: A CRINGING WOMAN’S LOT IS HARD; Untitled ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard") which is the title where the poem was first published.

A WORD FROM THE OUTER DARK
Alternate title: A SONG FROM THE OUTER DARK
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed, titled "A Song from the Outer Dark."

THE WORLD GOES BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE, YEA
Alternate titles: BACK TO THE PRIMATIVE;  Untitled ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea")
For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under Untitled ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea") which is the title where the poem was first published. 

THE WORSHIPPERS
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed.


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