Index:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is a list of poems written by J.R.R. Tolkien (years are the date of composition, if not stated otherwise). It does not include poems published within Tolkien's legendarium.

• The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911
• From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames 1913
• The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star (The Book of Lost Tales 2 267–269) 1914
• The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 261f.,269f. )
• Tinfang Warble 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 107f.)
• Goblin Feet 1915
• You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 27f.)
• Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 136)
• Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, The Trees of Kortirion)
• Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915
• A Song of Aryador 1915
• The Shores of Elfland 1915
• Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916
• The Sorrowful City 1916
• The Song of Eriol 1917 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 298ff.)
• The Horns of Ulmo 1917
• The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915
• The Clerke's Compleinte 1922
• Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
• The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
• Enigmala Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923
• The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923
• An Evening in Tavrobel 1924
• The Lonely Isle 1924
• The Princess Ni 1924
• Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
• The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 3-130)
• The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 131-141)
• The Lay of Eärendel 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 141-144)
• The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 144-149)
• The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 150-367)
• The Nameless Land 1927
• Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:

• Fastitocalon
• Iumbo

• Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
• Progress in Bimble Town 1931
• Poems in the essay A Secret Vice (1931), published in 1983 in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays:

• Oilima Markirya (with a revised version from much later date)
• The Last Ark
• Nieninque
• Earendel
• Earendel at the Helm
• Dir avosaith

• Errantry 1933
• Firiel 1934
• Looney 1934
• Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:

• Bagme Bloma
• Éadig Béo þu!
• Frenchmen Froth
• From One to Five
• I Sat upon a Bench
• Ides Ælfscýne
• La Húru
• Lit and Lang
• Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
• Ofer Wídne Gársecg
• The Root of the Boot
• Ruddoc Hana
• Syx Mynet

• The Dragon's Visit 1937
• Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937
• Again this year, my dear Priscilla (1938), in Letters from Father Christmas
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945
• Imram (The Death of St. Brendan) 1946 (published in Time and Tide, December 1955, Sauron Defeated 261ff,296ff)
• Elvish translations of catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in Vinyar Tengwar 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:

• Ataremma versions (Quenya Pater Noster) versions I-VI
• Aia María (Quenya Ave Maria) versions I-IV
• Loreto in Quenya
• Ortírielyanna (Quenya Sub Tuum Praesidium)
• Alcar i Ataren (Quenya Gloria Patri)
• Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun (Quenya Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
• Ae Adar Nín (Sindarin Pater Noster)

• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son 1953
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:

• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
• Bombadil Goes Boating
• Errantry
• Little Princess Mee
• The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
• The Stone Troll
• Perry-the-Winkle
• The Mewlips
• Oliphaunt
• Fastitocalon
• The Cat
• Shadow-Bride
• The Hoard
• The Sea-Bell
• The Last Ship

• Once upon a time 1965
• Bilbo's Last Song 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974)
• For W.H.A. in 1967 in Shenandoah
• Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore
• Mythopoeia published in certain editions of Tree and Leaf, republished in 1999 in an edition of Tree and Leaf in the U.K. only.