Hurt and Heal XI: Songs and Poems

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

For now, seconding the Bride and the Ring-verse. Otherwise, I nominate The Wind on the Withered Heath, a beautiful gem often forgotten:

The wind was on the withered heath,
but in the forest stirred no leaf:
there shadows lay be night or day,
and dark things silent crept beneath.
The wind came down from mountains cold,
and like a tide it roared and rolled;
the branches groaned, the forest moaned,
and leaves were laid upon the mould.

The wind went on from West to East;
all movement in the forest ceased,
but shrill and harsh across the marsh
its whistling voices were released.

The grasses hissed, their tassels bent,
the reeds were rattling--on it went
o'er shaken pool under heavens cool
where racing clouds were torn and rent.

It passed the Lonely Mountain bare
and swept above the dragon's lair:
there black and dark lay boulders stark
and flying smoke was in the air.

It left the world and took its flight
over the wide seas of the night.
The moon set sail upon the gale,
and stars were fanned to leaping light.

and also nominate Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob, the reason why I was super-happy when I finally got my own copy of The Hobbit, so I could read it whenever I wanted, and spent the Christmas Eve reading it over and over:

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.

Nominations/Secondings
Agan 0/5
Boro 0/4
G55 2/4
Legate 1/3

On the List

The King beneath the mountains (2)
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2)
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1)
Cold be hand and heart and bone (1)
Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2)
Learn now the lore of living creatures (1)
The Shadow Bride (2)
Wind on the Withered Heath (1)
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)