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ABE LINCOLN
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 ("Fear Finn: / Lo, friend, . . .")

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

ACE HIGH

THE ACTOR
Alternate title: Untitled ("I am an actor . . .")

ADAM’S LOINS WERE MOUNTAINS
Alternative title: Untitled ("Adam’s loins were mountains")


ADVENTURE (1, “Adventure, I have followed your beck”)
Alternate title: Untitled ("Adventure, I have followed your beck")

ADVENTURE (2, “I am the spur . . .”)
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam: / I’m trying to write again . . .")

ADVENTURER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam: / I’m trying to write again . . .")

THE ADVENTURER

THE ADVENTURER’S MISTRESS (1, "The scarlet standards of the sun")

THE ADVENTURER’S MISTRESS (2, "The fogs of night")
Alternate title: THE DANCE WITH DEATH


THE AFFAIR AT THE TAVERN
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed

AFTER A FLAMING NIGHT
Alternate title: MARK OF THE BEAST


AFTER THE TRUMPS ARE SOUNDED
Alternative title: Untitled ("After the trumps are sounded")

AGAINST A BLOOD RED MOON A TOWER STANDS
Alternative title: Untitled ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands")


AGE
Alternate title: TO THE OLD MEN
There are two slightly variant versions of this verse.

AGE COMES TO RABELAIS

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

THE ALAMO
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam: / I’m trying to write again . . .")

ALIEN
Alternate title: Untitled ("My brothers are blond and calm of speech")
An original typescript was untitled; a titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed

ALL DAY
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.




ALL THE CROWD
Alternative title: Untitled ("All the crowd")


ALTARS AND JESTERS (1)
Alternate title: AN OPIUM DREAM; A OPIUM DREAM
Included in a Kline agency list of REH poems it possessed after REH’s death, as "A Opium Dream";
another Kline listing is "Altars and Jesters"

ALTARS AND JESTERS (2)
Unpublished; an alternate version, with the last 12 of 16 lines different, was located in the Glenn Lord Collection.

ALWAYS COMES EVENING

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

AN AMERICAN
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s . . .")

AN AMERICAN EPIC
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam christened life . . .")

AM-RA THE TA-AN
Unfinished

ANCIENT ENGLISH BALLADEL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel")

AND BEOWULF RIDES AGAIN

AND BILL, HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID
Alternative title: Untitled ("And Bill, he looked at me and said")


AND DEMPSEY CLIMBED INTO THE RING
Alternative title: Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered")


AND MAN WAS GIVEN THE EARTH TO RULE
Alternate Title: FOR MAN WAS GIVEN THE EARTH TO RULE; THE OLD GODS BROOD


AND SO I SANG

AND THERE WERE LETHAL WOMEN
Alternative title: Untitled ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire")


ANOTHER HYMN OF HATE
A titled version is included in a list of REH poems that Kline possessed.

ANOTHER HYMN OF HATRED
Alternate title: ANOTHER HYMN OF HATE


ARCADIAN DAYS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926 ("Salaam, sahib; / In the first place . . .")

ARKHAM
From a letter to H.P. Lovecraft, December 9, 1931 ("I would have answered . . .")
In some of these publications the poem is incorporated into August Derleth’s version of "The House in the Oaks."

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

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

AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
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.


AS SAMPSON WAS
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.


AS YOU DANCE UPON THE AIR
Alternative title: Untitled ("As you dance upon the air")


ASTARTE’S IDOL STANDS ALONE

AT LEAST NO HYPOCRITE
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.


AT RINGSIDE
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.


AT THE BAZAAR
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn")

AT THE INN OF THE GORY DAGGER
Alternative title: Untitled ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to . . .")


AT THE SIGN OF THE SILVER SLIPPER
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.

ATTILA RIDES NO MORE

AUTHORIAL VERSION OF DUNA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 ("Fear Finn: / Lo, friend, . . .")

AUTUMN
Alternate title: A DREAM OF AUTUMN; THE AUTUMN OF THE WORLD
Originally titled "The Autumn of the World", from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930
("Well, Fear Finn, tell Cuchullain the Dutchess . . .")

THE AUTUMN OF THE WORLD
Alternate title: AUTUMN; A DREAM OF AUTUMN


"AW COME ON AND FIGHT!"
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930 ("Well, Fear Finn, tell Cuchullain the Dutchess . . .")


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