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I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I
Alternative title: Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal, I")

I AM THE SPIRIT OF WAR!
Alternative title: Untitled ("I am the Spirit of War!")

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

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

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

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

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

I LAY IN YEN’S OPIUM JOINT
Alternative title: Untitled ("I lay in Yen’s opium joint")

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

I TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND
Alternative title: Untitled ("I tell you this, my friend")

ILLUSION

I’M MORE THAN A MAN AND LESS THAN A GOD
Alternative title: 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: 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 title: 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
Alternative title: Untitled ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life")

THE ISLE OF HY-BRASIL
Alternate title: SHIPS
Lines 1-4 and 20-38 identical to lines 1-4 and 5-22 of "Ships."

IVORY IN THE NIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist . . .").

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