Poems

• Morning (2)
• Morning-Song (2)
• The Dale-Lands (2)
• Evening (2)
• Completorium
• Wood-Sunshine (3)
• The Sirens Feast
• The Sirens
• The Battle of the Eastern Field
• A Fragment of an Epic
• The New Lemminkainen
• Lemminkainen Goeth to the Ford of Oxen
• From Iffley (2)
• Valedictory
• Darkness on the Road (2)
• Sunset in a Town (2)
• The Grimness of the Sea (3)
• The Tides
• Sea Chant of an Elder Day · Sea-Song of an Elder Day
• The Horns of Ylmir
• Outside (2)
• Magna Dei Gloria (2)
• The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star
• The Last Voyage of Éarendel
• Éala! Éarendel Engla Beorhtast!
• The Story of Kullervo
• The Minstrel Renounces the Song · The Lay of Earendel · The Bidding of the Minstrel
• The Minstrel Renounces the Song
• The Bidding of the Minstrel from the Lay of Earendel
• The Mermaid’s Flute (2)
• Dark · Copernicus v. Ptolemy
• Dark · Copernicus v. Ptolemy · Copernicus and Ptolemy
• Dark · Copernicus and Ptolemy
• Ferrum et Sanguis (2)
• The Sparrow’s Morning Chirp to a Lazy Mortal
• Bilink, Bilink!
• Sparrow Song
• As Two Fair Trees (2)
• A Faërie: Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
• Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon (2)
• Courage Speaks to a Child of Earth
• The Two Riders
• May Day in a Backward Year · May-Day
• May Day in a Backward Year
• May-Day
• Goblin Feet (2)
• You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play
• The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
• Tinfang Warble (3)
• Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead
• The City of the Gods
• The Shores of Faery (2)
• Princess Nî
• The Princess Ní
• Princess Mee
• The Happy Mariners (6)
• The Trumpet of Faery
• The Trumpets of Faery
• The Horns of the Host of Doriath (2)
• Thoughts on Parade
• The Swallow and the Traveller on the Plains
• Empty Chapel (7)
• The Pines of Aryador · A Song of Aryador (2)
• The Pines of Aryador
• A Song of Aryador
• Dark Are the Clouds about the North (3)
• The Lonely Harebell · Elfalone
• The Lonely Harebell (3)
• Elfalone
• Kortirion among the Trees (5)
• The Trees of Kortirion (3)
• Narqelion (3)
• The Pool of the Dead Year (2)
• The Pool of Forgetfulness
• Over Old Hills and Far Away (3)
• The Wanderer’s Allegiance · The Sorrowful City · The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow · Wínsele Wéste, Windge Reste Réte Berofene · The Song of Eriol
• The Wanderer’s Allegiance · The Sorrowful City
• The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow
• Wínsele Wéste, Windge Reste Réte Berofene
• The Song of Eriol
• Habbanan beneath the Stars
• Eruman beneath the Stars
• Tol Eressea (2)
• For England: The Lonely Isle
• The Lonely Isle
• Two-Lieut (2)
• A Dream of Coming Home (2)
• A Memory of July in England
• Two Eves in Tavrobel (2)
• An Evening in Tavrobel
• Once upon a Time (2)
• The Thatch of Poppies (2)
• The Forest Walker (3)
• O Lady Mother Throned amid the Stars (2)
• Consolatrix Afflictorum
• Stella Vespertina
• Mother! O Lady Throned beyond the Stars
• To Early Morning Tea (2)
• An Ode Inspired by Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea
• G.B.S. (6)
• Ye Laggard Woodlands (7)
• Companions of the Rose
• The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel (2)
• I Stood upon an Empty Shore (2)
• Build Me a Grave beside the Sea (2)
• The Brothers-in-Arms
• A Rime for My Boy
• Nursery Rhymes Undone, or Their Scandalous Secret Unlocked
• The Cat and the Fiddle
• They Say There’s a Little Crooked Inn
• There Is an Inn, a Merry Old Inn
• The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
• A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning (2)
• The Ruined Enchanter (3)
• The Motor-cyclists
• Light as Leaf on Lind (3)
• As Light as Leaf on Lindentree (2)
• The Tale of Tinúviel (2)
• Nieninqe
• Nieninque (2)
• The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
• The Golden Dragon · Túrin Son of Húrin and Glórund the Dragon · The Children of Húrin (alliterative) · Winter Comes to Nargothrond (4)
• Winter Comes to Nargothrond
• The Clerkes Compleinte (2)
• Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden (4)
• The Hoard
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (3)
• Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo
• Úpwita Sceal Ealdgesægenum
• Moonshine (3)
• The Nameless Land (3)
• The Song of Ælfwine (4)
• Ave atque Vale
• Lines Composed on an Evening · Lines Composed in a Village Inn
• From One to Five (2)
• Ruddoc Hana
• Ides Ælfscýne (2)
• Bagmē Blōma (2)
• Éadig Béo Þu (2)
• Ofer Wídne Gársecg (3)
• I Sat upon a Bench
• Pēro & Pōdex
• The Root of the Boot (2)
• Sam's Song (2)
• The Stone Troll
• Frenchmen Froth
• Lit’ and Lang’
• All Hail!
• The Lion Is Loud and Proud
• The Song of Beewolf Son of Echgethew (7)
• The Owl and the Nightingale
• Pearl
• Gawain’s Leave-Taking
• Lay of Leithian (2)
• Shadowland (2)
• Knocking at the Door (2)
• The Mewlips
• Fastitocalon (2)
• Iumbo, or Ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt
• Syx Mynet (3)
• Lá, Húru (2)
• Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
• The Hills Are Old (2)
• Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul) (2)
• A Song of Bimble Bay (2)
• The Progress of Bimble
• Progress in Bimble Town
• Glip
• The Bumpus (2)
• William and the Bumpus
• The Bumpus · William and the Bumpus · Perry-the-Winkle
• Perry-the-Winkle
• Poor Old Grabbler
• Old Grabbler
• The Dragon’s Visit (5)
• Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates! (2)
• Far over the Misty Mountains Cold (2)
• The Wind Was on the Withered Heath (2)
• Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go (2)
• Under the Mountain Dark and Tall (2)
• O Where Are You Going
• The Dragon Is Withered
• Sing All Ye Joyful, Now Sing All Together (2)
• Elvish Song in Rivendell (2)
• Roads Go Ever Ever On · The Road Goes Ever On and On (7)
• The Corrigan · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (4)
• The Lay of Beowulf (2)
• Hengest
• The Derelicts
• Brydleoþ (2)
• The History of Tom Bombadil · The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (4)
• Monday Morning
• Oilima Markirya · The Last Ship · The Last Ark (8)
• Earendel · Earendel at the Helm (5)
• Dir Avosaith a Gwaew Hinar (4)
• The Last of the Old Gods
• Vestr um Haf · Bilbo’s Last Song (at the Grey Havens) (3)
• Errantry · Eärendil Was a Mariner · The Short Lay of Earendel: Earendillínwë (14)
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son (6)
• The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets)
• The New Lay of the Völsungs · The New Lay of Gudrún (4)
• The Prophecy of the Sibyl
• Bleak Heave the Billows
• Looney · The Sea-Bell (8)
• Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes (2)
• Mythopoeia
• The Merryman
• A Cherry with No Stone
• Doworst · Visio de Doworst (3)
• The Fall of Arthur (2)
• Firiel · The Last Ship (5)
• The Wanderers (4)
• When Little Louis Came To Stay
• Monað Modes Lust mid Mereflode (4)
• Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Firimoin (2)
• King Sheave
• The Shadow Man
• Shadow-Bride
• Noel
• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the Sky (4)
• Upon the Hearth the Fire Is Red (7)
• Snow-White! Snow-White! O Lady Clear! (7)
• Sing Hey! for the Bath at Close of Day (2)
• Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall (2)
• Hey! Come Merry Dol! · Hop Along, My Little Friends (5)
• Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone (3)
• All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter (6)
• Gil-galad Was an Elven-king (3)
• I Sit beside the Fire and Think (2)
• The World Was Young, the Mountains Green (2)
• The Song of Legolas · An Elven-maid There Was of Old (4)
• I Sang of Leaves · Galadriel’s Song (5)
• Ai! Laurië Lantar Lassi Súrinen
• Namárië
• Lament of Denethor for Boromir · Through Rohan over Fen and Field (3)
• In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan I Walked in the Spring (2)
• When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf (3)
• Where Now the Horse and the Rider? (3)
• Grey as a Mouse
• Oliphaunt
• Out of the Mountain Shall They Come Their Tryst Keeping · Over the Land There Lies a Long Shadow (7)
• From Dark Dunharrow in the Dim Morning (2)
• We Heard of the Horns in the Hills Ringing (4)
• I Sit upon the Stones Alone · In Western Lands beneath the Sun (4)
• Rhyme
• Sir Orfeo
• A Closed Letter to Andrea Charicoryides
• The Death of St Brendan · Imram (4)
• Be He Foe or Friend, Be He Foul or Clean
• Scatha the Worm (3)
• Wilt Thou Learn the Lore
• Cat
• You Walk on Grass (2)
• The Wind So Whirled a Weathercock
• Yenion Yukainen Nunn’ ar Anduine Lutie Loar! Loä Yukainen avar Anduinë Sí Valútier (3)
• To the University of Oxford (2)
• Gardeners’ Secrets
• Utch! A Gardener’s Secrets
• The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf (2)
• Ho! Tom Bombadil · The Fliting of Tom Bombadil · Bombadil Goes Boating (7)
• Rosalind Ramage (2)
• Three Children (4)
• Where the Riming Rune-Tree Blows (2)
• Though All Things Fail and Come to Naught (3)
• No Longer Fear Champagne (2)
• My Heart Is Not in This Land Where I Live (2)
• As You Must Admit (2)
• ‘At Last the Time Has Come,’ He Said (2)
• For W.H.A.