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

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. November 1928 ("Salaam: / THIS IS A LETTER I STARTED . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Adventure, I have followed your beck")
Alternate title: ADVENTURE (1)

UNTITLED ("After the trumps are sounded")
 Alternate title: AFTER THE TRUMPS ARE SOUNDED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands")
 Alternate title: AGAINST A BLOOD RED MOON A TOWER STANDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August/September 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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, boy, you're . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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

UNTITLED ("And Bill, he looked at me and said")
Alternative title: AND BILL, HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered")
 Alternate title: AND DEMPSEY CLIMBED INTO THE RING
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib: / What ho, milord!");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire")
 Alternate title: AND THERE WERE LETHAL WOMEN
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 ("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; Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, 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");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Away in the dusky barracoon")
Alternate title: CORNISH JACK

UNTITLED ("The Baron of Fenland sat at ease")
 Alternate title: THE BARON OF FENLAND SAT AT EASE
Included in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter . . .");
All the publications except THE NEW HOWARD READER and COLLECTED LETTERS
are facsimile reproductions of the second page of that letter, which contains the verse;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Brazen thewed giant of a grimmer Age")
 Alternate title: BRAZEN THEWED GIANT OF A GRIMMER AGE
Unfinished; Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop")
 Alternate title: BY OLD ABIE GOLDSTEIN’S PAWN SHOP
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: Black Dawn");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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

UNTITLED ("Chesterton twanged on his lyre")
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 title: A CLASH OF STEEL, A THUD OF HOOFS
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 ("Come with me to the Land of Sunrise")
Alternate title: THE TRAIL OF GOLD

UNTITLED ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard")
 Alternate title: A CRINGING WOMAN’S LOT IS HARD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("Deep in my bosom . . .")
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I have forgotten . . .")

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

UNTITLED ("Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs")
 Alternate title: DRAWERS THAT A GIRL STRIPS DOWN HER THIGHS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I got such a laugh . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 title: THE EAST IS RED AND I AM DEAD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("Fill up my goblet . . .")
Alternate titles: SOWERS OF THE THUNDER (verse heading); THE BALLAD OF BAIBARS
The last eight lines were used by REH as verse heading for the story "Sowers of the Thunder", and titled "The Ballad of Baibars"

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

UNTITLED ("For I have seen the lizards crawl")
Alternate title: BABYLON

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

UNTITLED ("For what is a maid to the shout of kings")
 Alternate title: FOR WHAT IS A MAID TO THE SHOUT OF KINGS
Incomplete; Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meger")
 Alternate title: GIVE YE OF MY BEST THOUGH THE DOLE BE MEGER
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 ("Gods of heather, gods of lake")
Alternate titles: RUNE; RUNE OF THE ANCIENT ONE

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 title: 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 title: HE CLUTCHED HIS PENIS TIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 title: THE HELMSMAN GAILY, RODE DOWN THE RICKERBOO
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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 title: HILLS OF THE NORTH! LAVENDER HILLS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Ho, for a trail that is bloody 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Ho merry bark, let’s go.")
 Alternate title: HO MERRY BARK, LET’S GO
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 ("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

UNTITLED ("I am MAN from the primal, I")
 Alternate title: I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Not having much . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("I call the muster of iron men")
 Alternate title: I CALL THE MUSTER OF IRON MEN
From an early draft of "Crowd-Horror";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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

UNTITLED ("I cut my teeth on toil and 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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. November 1928 ("Salaam: / THIS IS A LETTER I STARTED . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps")
 Alternate title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 opium joint")
 Alternate title: I LAY IN YEN’S OPIUM JOINT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 title: I TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 ("Salaam: / I’m glad you passed . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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

UNTITLED ("I’m more than a man and less than a god")
 Alternate title: I’M MORE THAN A MAN AND LESS THAN A GOD
Contained in the single page of draft of the story "Yellow Laughter";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life")
 Alternate title: THE IRON HARP THAT ADAM CHRISTENED LIFE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("A jackal laughed from a thicket still, . . .")
Alternate title: FLIGHT

UNTITLED ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands")
 Alternate title: KEEP WOMEN, THRONES AND KINGLY LANDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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. November 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 BORN TO LIVE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / THIS IS A LETTER I STARTED . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 title: LIZZEN MY CHILDREN AND YOU SHALL BE TOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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

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

UNTITLED ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk")
 Alternate title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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 title: MOTHER EVE, MOTHER EVE, I NAME YOU A FOOL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Murky the night")
 Alternate title: MURKY THE NIGHT
Unfinished; actually titled "Untitled";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("My brother he was an auctioneer")
 Alternate title: MY BROTHER HE WAS A AUCTIONEER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

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 title: NOAH WAS MY APPLESAUCE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Now anthropoid and leprous shadows lope")
Alternate title: ALL HALLOWS EVE

UNTITLED ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped")
 Alternate title: NOW BRIGHT, NOW RED, THE SABERS SPED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 of the 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 ("O’er lakes agleam . . .")
Alternate title: CHANT OF THE WHITE BEARD

UNTITLED ("Oh, the road to glory lay")
 Alternate title: 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;
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;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Oh, we are little children, marching on to Hell")
 Alternate title: OH, WE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN, MARCHING ON TO HELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear . . .");
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls" ;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 WAS A MAN OF MIGHT
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 title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came")
 Alternate title: OUT OF ASIA THE TRIBESMEN CAME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("Over the hills the winds . . .")
Alternate title: THE WINDS OF THE SEA (1)

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

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

UNTITLED ("Palm-trees are waving in the Gulf breeze")
 Alternate title: 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.");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Ramona! Ramona!")
 Alternate title: RAMONA! ROMONA!
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 of the 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 ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair")
 Alternate title: ROSES LAUGHED IN HER PRETTY HAIR
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 title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY and SELECTED POEMS.

UNTITLED ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold")
 Alternate title: SAPPHO, THE GRECIAN HILLS ARE GOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight")
 Alternate title: SCARLET AND GOLD ARE THE STARS TONIGHT
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 and A WORD FROM THE OUTER DARK.

UNTITLED ("The scarlet standards of the sun")
Alternate title: THE ADVENTURER’S MISTRESS (1)

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

UNTITLED ("The shades of night were falling faster")
 Alternate title: THE SHADES OF NIGHT WERE FALLING FAST
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED (draft, "She came in the grey of . . .")
Alternate title: A CHALLENGE TO BAST

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 title: THE SPIDERS OF WEARINESS COME ON ME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you’re writing . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("The stars beat up . . .")
Alternate titles: THE HEART OF THE SEA’S DESIRE; MATE OF THE SEA

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 title: SWORDS GLIMMERED UP THE PASS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Take some honey from a cat")
 Alternate title: TAKE SOME HONEY FROM A CAT
From a letter to TCS, ca. August/September 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("The tall man answered:")
 Alternate title: THE TALL MAN ANSWERED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I'd laughed . . .");
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("The tall man said:")
 Alternate title: THE TALL MAN SAID
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I'd laughed . . .");
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers")
 Alternate title: TELL ME NOT IN COOCOO NUMBERS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance . . .");
Contained in the story "The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Then Stein the peddler with rising joy")
 Alternate title: THEN STEIN THE PEDDLER WITH RISING JOY
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930 ("Salaam, Fear Finn: / Then Stein the peddler . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("There are grim things did")
 Alternate title: THERE ARE GRIM THINGS DID
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("Salaam: / There once was a wicked . . .");
This is a draft form of "The Ballad of Singapore Nell";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("There come long days . . .")
Alternate title: AN OUTWORN STORY

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 wicked old elf")
 Alternate title: THERE ONCE WAS A WICKED OLD ELF
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated ("Salaam: / There once was a wicked . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("There was a young girl from 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 title: THERE WERE THREE LADS WHO WENT THEIR DESTINED WAYS
From an undated, enclosed separate document sent with a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY, SELECTED POETRY, and A WORD FROM THE OUTER DARK.

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 title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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 title: THEY MATCHED ME UP THAT NIGHT WITH A BIRD THAT WAS A FRIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("They were there, in the distance dreaming")
 Alternate title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("This is a young world")
 Alternate title: THIS IS A YOUNG WORLD
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY and A WORD FROM THE OUTER DARK.

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 tale the Kaffirs tell . . .")
Alternate title: THE ZULU LORD

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 title: 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 . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

UNTITLED ("Thus in my mood I love you")
Alternate titles: THE TIDE; TO A WOMAN (3)

UNTITLED ("The times, the times stride on apace and fast")
 Alternate title: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;
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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

UNTITLED ("Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell")
 Alternate title: TOAST TO THE BRITISH! DAMN THEIR SOULS TO HELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August/September 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN . . .");
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.

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;
Was replaced in the final version with two lines from "The Gates of Damascus" by James Flecker;
This poem was added by Derleth to his version of "The House in the Oaks";
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY

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

UNTITLED ("‘Turn out the light.’ I raised 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