This page records which poems are previously unpublished in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024).
Previously unpublished (74 items)
- #1. Morning Song
- #2. The Dale-lands
- #3. Completorium
- #5. Meremenna Symbel
- #7. A Fragment of an Epic: Before Jerusalem Richard Makes an End of Speech
- #8. The New Lemminkainen
- #9. Lemminkainen Goeth to the Fords of Oxen
- #11. Darkness on the Road
- #12. Sunset in a Town
- #14. Outside
- #15. Magna Dei Gloria (Warwick)
- #19. The Mermaid's Flute from 'The Lay of Earendel'
- #20. Dark
- #21. Ferrum et Sanguis: 1914
- #22. Sparrow Song
- #23. As Two Fair Trees
- #25. The Two Riders
- #26. May-day
- #34. The Horns of the Host of Doriath
- #35. The Swallow, and the Traveller on the Plains
- #36. Empty Chapel
- #38. Dark Are the Clouds about the North
- #39. Elf Alone
- #42. The Pool of Forgetfulness
- #47. There once was a dashing 'Two-lieut':
- #49. The Thatch of Poppies
- #50. The Forest-walker
- #51. Stella Vespertina
- #52. An Ode Inspired by Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea
- #53. G.B.S.
- #54. Ye laggard woodlands and ye slumbrous brakes
- #55. Companions of the Rose
- #57. I stood upon an empty shore before the sun was born
- #58. The Brothers-in-Arms
- #59. A Rime for My Boy
- #61. A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning
- #62. The Ruined Enchanter
- #63. The Motor-cyclists
- #66. The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
- #73. Moonshine: Verses in a Medieval Measure
- #75. Lines Composed in a Village Inn on an Evening of Extraordinary Liquid Beauty
- #86. All Hail!
- #87. The Lion Is Loud and Proud
- #89. The Owl and the Nightingale [*not published in full]
- #93. Shadowland
- #100. The Hills Are Old
- #101. Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul)
- #102. A Song of Bimble Bay
- #106. Old Grabbler
- #118. Hengest
- #119. The Derelicts
- #120. Brýdleoþ
- #122. Monday Morning
- #126. The Last of the Old Gods
- #130. The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets)
- #133. Bleak Heave the Billows
- #135. Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes
- #137. The Merryman
- #138. A Cherry with No Stone
- #142. The Wanderers: A Moral Lay
- #143. When little Louis came to stay
- #180. You Walk on Grass
- #182. Loä yukainen avar Anduinë sí valútier:
- #183. To the University of Oxford
- #184. Utch! A Gardener's Secrets
- #187. Rosalind Ramage
- #188. Three Children
- #189. Where the riming rune-tree blows,
- #190. Though all things fail & come to naught,
- #191. No longer fear champagne,
- #192. My heart is not in this land where I live:
- #193. As you must admit,
- #194. 'At last the time has come,' he said,
- Appendix V. Bealuwérig
Previously published partially
- #4. Wood-sunshine
- 6 lines quoted in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977)
- #88. The Tale of Beewolf Son of Echgethew [*not published in full]
- 19 lines used as a demonstration of meter in the preface of Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment (1940), the preface was reprinted as "On Translating Beowulf" in The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
- #139. Visio de Doworst
- an extract appeared in Monash Review 3 (1975) and A Elbereth Gilthoniel! 1, no. 2 (1978)
- #181. The wind so whirled a weathercock
- 1st stanza included in the preface of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
- #185. The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf
- a German translation appeared in Klett-Cotta: Das erste Jahrzehnt 1977–1987, ein Almanach (1987)
Remaining poems
The rest of the poems, though not appearing for the first time, are now accompanied with almost all the variant versions and drafts that can be found. So almost none of them is without new material.
Mentioned, but not found or lost
- Smakkabagms
- see the commentary on poem no. 76 "From One to Five"
- Reginhardus, the Fox and Monoceros, the Unicorn
- see the commentary on poem no. 95 "Fastitocalon"