Other editions:	1st Edition
Home

Notes

Edited by Rob Roehm & John Bullard

Annotations by Rusty Burke

The following stories and poems are contained in the letters:
001	Untitled ("When Napoleon down in Africa . . .") (poem)
001	"Neolithic Love Song" (poem)
002	Untitled ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo . .") (poem)
002	Untitled ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped among the racing horde . . .") (poem)
003	"The Dook of Stork"
004	Untitled ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold") (poem)
004	Untitled ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came") (poem)
005	Untitled ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs") (poem)
005	Untitled ("A hundred years the great war raged") (poem)
015	Untitled ("Palm-trees are waving in the Gulf breeze") (poem)
018	Untitled ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills") (poem)
018	Untitled ("Dark are your eyes") (poem)
018	"Slugger's Vow" (as Untitled ("How your right thudded on my jaw")) (poem)
018	Untitled ("I am the spirit of War!") (poem)
018	Untitled ("I lay in Yen's opium joint") (poem)
020	"The Bombing of Gon Fanfew" (poem)
021	"The Sappious Few Menchew"
022	"The Post of the Sappy Skipper"
022	"The Bore of the Cowed"
023	"When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham" (poem)
025	"King Bahthur’s Court"
027	Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring . . .") (poem)
029	Untitled ("I tell you this my friend") (poem)
032	Untitled ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand") (poem)
032	Untitled ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair") (poem)
033	Untitled ("All the crowd") (poem)
041	"The Viking of the Sky" (poem)
044	"The Dancer" (poem)
044	"Destiny" (2, "What is there . . .") (poem)
044	"Laughter" (poem)
044	Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses") (poem)
044	Untitled ("The shades of night were falling faster") (poem)
046	Untitled ("Give ye of my best . . .") (poem)
046	Untitled ("Early in the morning I gazed . . .") (poem)
046	"Eternity" (poem)
046	"Serpent" (poem)
046	"Shadows" (3, "I am that which was . . .") (poem)
046	"Destiny" (3, "I am a white trail . . .") (poem)
046	"Adventure" (2, "I am the spur . . .") (poem)
046	"Libertine" (poem)
046	"Nun" (poem)
046	"Prude" (poem)
046	"Adventurer" (poem)
046	"Poet" (poem)
046	"Dancer" (poem)
046	"Dreamer" (poem)
046	"Sailor" (poem)
046	"Cowboy" (poem)
046	"Toper" (poem)
046	"Girl" (poem)
046	"Deeps" (poem)
046	"Thor" (poem)
046	"Mystic" (poem)
046	"Orientia" (poem)
046	"The Mountains of California" (poem)
046	"Monarchs" (poem)
046	"Lust" (poem)
046	"The Alamo" (poem)
046	"San Jacinto" (1, "Flowers bloom on San Jacinto") (poem)
046	"Romance" (2, "Shouting I come, flouting I come") (poem)
047	"Arcadian Days" (poem)
048	"Twilight on Stonehenge" (poem)
048	"Ocean-Thoughts" (poem)
049	"The Campus at Midnight" (poem)
053	"The Road to Hell" (as Untitled ("Along the road that leads . . .")) (early version, only lines 1-4, 24-28) (poem)
053	"Flight" (as Untitled ("A jackal laughed …")) (early version, lines 1-4, 9-16, 29-40) (poem)
053	Untitled ("The Baron of Fenland . . .") (poem)
054	"The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu"
054	"Lilith" (poem)
054	"The Gods Remember" (1, "Lost wonders of the ages") (poem)
054	"The Dreams of Men" (poem)
054	"The Builders" (2, "We reared Bab-ilu's towers") (poem)
054	"The Road to Babel" (poem)
054	"Memories" (2, "Shall we remember, friend of the morning") (poem)
054	Untitled ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers")
055	"Revenge"
055	"Legend"
055	"Where Strange Gods Squall" (Part 1 of 2)
055	Untitled ("Take some honey from a cat") (poem)
055	"The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts" (poem)
055	Untitled ("Against the blood red moon . . .") (poem)
055	Untitled ("Toast to the British! . . .") (poem)
056	"Where Strange Gods Squall" (Part 2 of 2)
056	Untitled ("What's become of Waring?") (poem)
056	"The Robes of the Righteous" (poem)
056	Untitled ("After the trumps are sounded") (poem)
058	"The Road to Hell" (as Untitled "Along the road that leads to hell") (lines 1-4 only) (poem)
058	"Long Ago" (2, last line is "Ah, the rose in your dark hair.") (poem)
058	"The Men That Walk With Satan" (poem)
058	"Flight" (as Untitled "A jackal laughed …") (poem, lines 1-16, 29-32, 45-48)
058	"A Negro Girl" (as Untitled ("Favored child of a lucky star …")) (poem)
058	"The Dust Dance" (2, "The sin and jest of the times am I", lines 1-80 only) (poem)
058	"Destiny" (1, "I think I was born . . .") (poem)
058	"The Song of Horsa’s Galley" (as "From the North's blue deep . . .") (poem, variant version with the lines rearranged)
058	"The Gods I Worshipped" (as "The standards toss in pride . . .") (poem)
059	"King Hootus"
059	"Symbols" (poem)
059	"Romany Road" (poem)
059	"Love" (poem)
059	"The Chant Demoniac" (poem)
059	"A Man" (poem)
059	"The Grey Lover" (poem)
059	"Life" (1, "About me rise the primal mists") (poem)
060	"Wolfsdung"
060	Untitled ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands") (poem)
060	Untitled ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea") (poem)
060	Untitled ("I do not sing of a paradise") (poem)
060	Untitled ("Mother Eve, Mother Eve, . . .") (poem)
060	Untitled ("The east is red and I am dead") (poem)
062	Untitled ("A typical small town drugstore . . .")
063	"The Coming of Bast" (as "She came in the grey of the desert dawn . . .") (poem)
064	"Keresa, Keresita" (poem)
065	"How to Select a Successful Evangelist" (poem)
065	"The Choir Girl" (poem)
065	"A Song of Cheer" (poem)
065	"Repentance" (poem)
065	Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal . . .") (poem)
066	Untitled ("The spiders of weariness . . .") (poem)
066	"The Dust Dance" (2,"The sin and jest of the times am I") (lines 81-96) (poem)
066	"The Odyssey of Israel" (as Untitled ("Moses was our leader . . .")) (poem)
066	"Secrets" (poem)
066	"The Dust Dance" (1, "For I, with the . . .") (lines 37-44) (poem)
066	"The Chinese Gong" (poem)
069	Untitled ("Now the stars are all gleaming") (poem)
075	Untitled ("Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain . . .") (poem)
075	"The Rump of Swift"
075	"A Young Wife's Tale" (poem)
075	"Lesbia" (poem)
075	"A Roman Lady" (poem)
075	Untitled ("They matched me up that night . . .") (poem)
075	"Song of a Fugitive Bard" (poem)
075	Untitled ("A cringing woman's lot . . .") (poem)
075	"Nights to Both of Us Known" (poem)
077	"Dula Due to Be Champion"
079	"Warning to Orthodoxy" (poem)
082	"Shadows of Dreams" (poem)
085	"The Ecstasy of Desolation" (as Untitled ("Long were the years . . .")) (poem)
088	"A Song of the Anchor Chain" (poem)
088	"The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore" (poem)
089	"Song from an Ebony Heart" (poem)
089	Untitled ("Swords glimmered up the pass") (poem)
089	"Rebellion" (poem)
089	"A Great Man Speaks" (poem)
089	"Yodels of Good Cheer to the Pipple, Damn Them" (poem)
089	Untitled ("He clutched his . . .") (poem)
089	Untitled ("Noah was my applesauce") (poem)
090	"Nancy Hawk, A Legend of Virginity" (poem)
090	Untitled ("Drawers that a girl . . .") (poem)
090	Untitled ("Tumba Hooey")
090	"To a Nameless Woman" (poem)
091	Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight") (poem)
091	Untitled ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might") (poem)
091	Untitled ("Rebel souls from the falling dark") (poem)
091	"The Call of Pan" (as Untitled ("My heart is a silver drum tonight")) (poem)
091	Untitled ("A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne") (poem)
092	Untitled ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold") (poem)
092	Untitled ("Romona! Romona!") (poem)
092	"A Fable for Critics" (as Untitled ("Now come the days of high . . .")) (poem)
092	"Flaming Marble" (as Untitled ("I carved a woman out of marble when")) (poem)
094	"The People of the Winged Skull"
094	Untitled ("Oh, we are little children . . .") (poem)
094	Untitled ("The tall man answered: . . .") (poem)
094	Untitled ("The tall man rose and said: . . .") (poem)
094	Untitled ("The tall man said: . . .") (poem)
094	Untitled ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land") (poem)
094	Untitled ("Let me live as I was born to live . . .") (poem)
094	Untitled ("Adam's loins were mountains, . . .") (poem)
094	"The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore" (poem)
094	"A Ballad of Insanity" (poem)
094	"That Women May Sing of Us" (poem)
094	"Sighs in the Yellow Leaves" (poem)
094	Untitled ("I hate the man who tells me . . .") (poem)
094	"A Far Country" (poem)
095	"A Song of College" (poem)
095	"A Song of Greenwich" (poem)
095	"Ballade" (poem)
096	Untitled ("Out in front of Goldstein's . . .") (poem)
096	"The Deed Beyond the Deed" (poem)
096	"An American" (poem)
096	Untitled ("There's an isle far away . . .") (poem)
096	"Shadow of Dreams" (as Untitled ("Stay not from me, that veil . . .")) (poem)
096	"My Children" (poem)
096	Untitled ("The women come and . . .") (poem)
096	"Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" (poem)
096	"The Last Words He Heard" (as Untitled ("The chariots were chanting . . .")) (poem)
096	Untitled ("Flappers flicker . . .") (poem)
096	Untitled ("I hold all women . . .") (poem)
096	Untitled ("Love is singing soft and low") (poem)
097	"To An Earth Bound Soul" (poem)
097	"To All Lords of Commerce" (poem)
098	"Niflheim" (poem)
098	"Nisapur" (as Untitled ("The day that towers, …")) (poem)
099	Untitled ("There once was a wicked old elf") (poem)
099	Untitled ("There are grim things did, . . .") (poem)
099	"To Lyle Saxon" (poem)
101	"Ancient English Balladel" (poem)
101	Untitled ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger") (poem)
102	"The Case of the College Toilet"
102	Untitled ("And there were lethal women . . .") (poem)
102	Untitled ("A haunting cadence . . .") (poem)
102	Untitled ("Through the mists of silence . . .") (poem)
102	"The Mysteries (poem)
103	"Black Dawn" (poem)
103	"The Path of Strange Wanderers" (poem)
103	"At the Bazaar" (poem)
103	Untitled ("Hatrack!")
103	Untitled ("By old Abe Goldstein's . . .") (poem)
103	"Bastards All!"
103	"Songs of Bastards"
103	"The Fashion of the Cheese"
103	Untitled ("A beggar, singing without . . .") (poem)
104	"To a Roman Woman" (poem)
104	"Ivory in the Night" (poem)
107	Untitled ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life") (poem)
107	"To the Contented" (poem)
107	"High Blue Halls" (poem)
107	"An American Epic" (poem)
109	"Black Seas" (poem)
110	"Irony"
115	Untitled ("As my dear public remembers . . .")