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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. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

UNTITLED ("Adventure, I have followed your beck")
Alternate titles: ADVENTURE (1); THE CALL OF ADVENTURE

UNTITLED ("After the trumps are sounded")
 Alternate title: AFTER THE TRUMPS ARE SOUNDED
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Fall 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said …")

UNTITLED ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands")
 Alternate titles: AGAINST THE BLOOD RED MOON A TOWER STANDS; THE HAUNTED TOWER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca.October 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN ...")

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, bo, you're ...")

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

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

UNTITLED ("And Bill, he looked at me and said")
Alternate titles: AND BILL, HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID; HARD CHOICES

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!")

UNTITLED ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire")
 Alternate titles: AND THERE WERE LETHAL WOMEN; THE HAREM
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School ...")

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

UNTITLED ("At the Inn of the GoryDagger, 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")

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

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under CORNISH JACK which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("The Baron of Fenland sat at ease")
 Alternate titles: THE BARON OF FENLAND;  THE BARON OF FENLAND SAT ATEASE
Included in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid-September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter ...")

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")

UNTITLED ("Brazen thewed giant of a grimmer Age")
 Alternate titles: BRAZEN THEWED GIANT; BRAZEN THEWED GIANT OF A GRIMMER AGE
Unfinished

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

UNTITLED ("By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop")
 Alternate titles:  BY OLD ABIE GOLDSTEIN’S PAWN SHOP; COME YOU BACK TO RACHEL SHEA
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: Black Dawn")

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

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

UNTITLED ("Chesterton twanged on hislyre")
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 titles: A CLASH OF STEEL, A THUD OF HOOFS; THE MONGOLS COME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 ("Clyde Sahib; / You say I'll be in Kabul.")

UNTITLED ("Come with me to the Land of Sunrise")
Alternate title: THE TRAIL OF GOLD

UNTITLED ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard")
 Alternate titles: A CRINGING WOMAN’S LOT IS HARD; A WOMAN BORN TO RULE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights …");

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 ...")

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

UNTITLED ("Deep in my bosom ...")
Alternate title:  MY ANIMAL INSTINCT

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

UNTITLED ("Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs")
 Alternate titles: BAD CHOICES; DRAWERS THAT A GIRL STRIPS DOWN HER THIGHS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I got such a laugh ...")

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 titles: THE EAST ISRED AND I AM DEAD; THE MORNING AFTER
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

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: FILL UP MY GOBLET
The last eight lines of this poem were used by REH as a verse heading for the story "Sowers of the Thunder" where they were titled "The Ballad of Baibars."
Alternate titles: SOWERS OF THE THUNDER (verse heading); THE BALLAD OF BAIBARS

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

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 theshout of kings?")
 Alternate title: FOR WHAT IS A MAID TO THE SHOUT OF KINGS?
Incomplete

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 titles: GIVE YE OF MY BEST THOUGH THE DOLE BE MEGER; FORBODINGS OF A BLOODY REVOLUTION
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam; / I’m trying to write again ...")

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 titles: A HAUNTING CADENCE; 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 titles: HE CLUTCHED HIS PENIS TIGHT; LONELY NIGHT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear ...")

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 titles: THE HELMSMEN; THE HELMSMAN GAILY, RODE DOWN THE RICKERBOO
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your …")

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 titles: HILLS OF THE NORTH!  HILLS OF THE NORTH! LAVENDER HILLS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")

UNTITLED ("Ho, for a trail that isbloody 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 ...")
This poem is an early untitled draft of A SONG OUT OF THE EAST.

UNTITLED ("Ho merry bark, let’s go.")
 Alternate title: HO MERRY BARK, LET’S GO
Titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY.
 Although this poem appears in Robert E. Howard's self-published fanzine, THE RIGHT HOOK, it is not actually written by REH.
The verse is actually from a poem called "Canoe Song of the North" by Chester Firkins.
It was published in THE ALL-STORY dated September 1911 where REH may have seen it.

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 titles: FROM THE PRIMAL;  I AM MAN FROM THE PRIMAL, I
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Not having much …")

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

UNTITLED ("I call the muster of iron men")
From an early draft of "Crowd-Horror."
Below are listed appearances apart from the story.
Alternate title: I CALL THE MUSTER OF IRON MEN

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

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under FLAMING MARBLE which is the title where the poem was first published.

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

UNTITLED ("I cut my teeth on toiland 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 ...")

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. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

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

UNTITLED ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps")
 Alternate titles: I HOLD ALL WOMEN; 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 ...")

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 opiumjoint")
 Alternate titles: I LAY IN YEN’S OPIUM JOINT; YEN'S OPIUM JOINT
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you ...")

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 titles: BLASPHEMY; I TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 ("Salaam: / I’m glad you passed ...")

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

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under A THOUSAND YEARSAGO which is the title where the poem was firstpublished.

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 titles: I'M MORE THAN A MAN; I’M MORE THAN A MAN AND LESS THAN A GOD
Contained in the single page of draft of the story "Yellow Laughter"
Note: Collected Poetry Volume 2 (2nd edition) has the first line as "I'm more than a man and more than a god" in error.

UNTITLED ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life")
 Alternate titles: ADAM'S IRON HARP; THE IRON HARP THAT ADAM CHRISTENED LIFE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam christened Life ...")

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

UNTITLED ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands")
 Alternate titles: DARK DESIRES; KEEP WOMEN, THRONES AND KINGLY LANDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

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. October 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 BORNTO LIVE
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)

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 ...")

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 titles: LIZZEN MY CHILDREN; LIZZEN MY CHILDREN AND YOU SHALL BE TOLD
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children ...")

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 ...")

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

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

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

UNTITLED ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk")
 Alternate titles: APOLOGIES; 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 ...")

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 titles: MINGLE MY DUST; MINGLE MY DUST WITH THE BURNING BRAND
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925 ("Salaam; / I’ve been thinking.")

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 titles: MOTHER EVE; MOTHER EVE, MOTHER EVE, I NAME YOU A FOOL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb ...")

UNTITLED ("Murky the night")
 Alternate title: MURKY THE NIGHT
Incomplete; actually titled "Untitled"

UNTITLED ("My brother he was an auctioneer")
 Alternate title: MY BROTHER HE WAS A AUCTIONEER
Originally believed to be from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!" ).
It was later determined to actually be from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen you …") and part of the poem "The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore."

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 titles: NOAH WAS MY APPLESAUCE; PRAISES OF A LUNATIC
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I’ll swear ...")

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

For appearances of this poem, refer to the main verse listing under ALL HALLOWS EVE which is the title where the poem was first published.

UNTITLED ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped")
 Alternate titles: NOW BRIGHT, NOW RED, THE SABERS SPED; THE SWORD OF YAR ALI KHAN
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22 1923 ("Clyde sahib greeting: / I found your ...")

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 ofthe 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")
A poem that is contained in "The Pit of the Serpent" and appears with all publications of that story.
Below are listed appearances apart from the story.
 Alternate title: OH, THE ROAD TO GLORY LAY

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.

UNTITLED ("Oh, we are little children, marching on to Hell!")
 Alternate titles: OH, WE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN; OH, WE ARE LITTLE CHILDREN, MARCHING ON TO HELL
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more ...”)
This poem is contained in the story "People of the Winged Skulls." 

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
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 titles: DANCING AT GOLDSTEIN'S;  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 ...")

UNTITLED ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came")
 Alternate titles: OUT OF ASIA;  OUT OF ASIA THE TRIBESMEN CAME
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur")

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

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

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

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

UNTITLED ("Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze")
 Alternate titles: MEXICAN VACATION; 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.")

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 ofthe 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 titles: ROSES LAUGHED IN HER PRETTY HAIR; A BETTER HAND TO HOLD
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 titles: A SAPPE THER WOS; 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 ...")

UNTITLED ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold")
 Alternate titles: SAPPHO, THE GRECIAN HILLS ARE GOLD; TWO WORLDS
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh!" / Sappho, the Grecian ...)