General Indexes to Poems

Brewton, John Edmund. Index to poetry for children and young people, 1964-1969. New York: Wilson, 1972. PN 1023 B742
Bruncken, Herbert. Subject index to poetry: a guide for adult readers. Chicago: American Library Association, 1940-. PN 1021 B7
Crum, M., ed. First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. PN 1021 C78
Davis, Gwenn, and Beverly A. Joyce. Poetry by women to 1900: a bibliography of American and British writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Z 2013.5 W6D38 1991
Frankovich, Nicholas, ed The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. [50,000+ poems by 251 authors in 225 volumes.] PN 1021 G7 1996X
Hazen, Edith P., ed The Columbia Granger's dictionary of poetry quotations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. [4,000 poems.] PN 6082 C57
Hazen, Edith P., and Deborah J. Fryer, eds. The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. 10th edn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. PN 1021 G7 1994
Hoffman, Herbert H., and Rita Ludwig Hoffman=2E International index to recorded poetry. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1983. PN 1022 H63 1983
Kline, Victoria Last lines: an index to the last lines of poetry. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1991. PN 1022 .K55 1991
Liu, Alan, ed. The Voice of the Shuttle. [an indispensable index to humanities literature on-line]
Lynch, Jack. Literary Resources on the Web. Dept. of English, Rutgers University.
Master index to poetry: an index to poetry in anthologies and collections. 2 vols. Great Neck, N.Y.: Roth, 1988. [Uses indexes by Granger, Brewston, Bruncken, Roth, and Sell.] PN 1022 M37 1988
Morris, Helen. The New Where's that poem? an index of poems for children arranged by subject, with a bibliography of books of poetry. 4th edn. Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes, 1994.
Opie, Iona and Peter The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [549 poems, from "A was an applie-pie" to "Oh, the brave old Duke of York"] PN 6110 C4 052
Rogal, Samuel J. The children's jubilee: a bibliographical survey of hymnals for infants, youth, and Sunday schools published in Britain and America, 1655-1900. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. Z 7800 R63
Sell, Violet, comp. Subject index to poetry for children and young people. American Library Association, 1982. 808.81016 S645S 1982 OISE
Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL). Ed. Douglas B. Killings. Berkeley, 1994-.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Trans. James Ingram. London, 1823. Additional readings, trans. J.A. Giles (London, 1847). [ conflated edition with some entries devised as poems.]
- Codex Junius 11 (Bodleian Library MS 5123). The Caedmon Poems. Trans. George W. Kennedy. New York, 1916. [Old English "Genesis A", "Genesis B", "Exodus", "Daniel", and "Christ and Satan".]
- High History of the Holy Graal. The High History of the Holy Graal. Trans. Sebastian Evans. London: Everyman Library, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
- The Lay of the Cid. The Lay of the Cid. Trans. R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1919.
- The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald ("Kormak's Saga"). Trans. W.G. Collingwood & J. Stefansson. Ulverston, 1901. [Macaronic work.]
- Nibelungenlied. Trans. Daniel B. Shumway. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1909. [Middle High German.]
- The Song of Roland. Trans. Charles Scott Moncrief. London, 1919. [Old French.]
- Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso ("Orlando Enraged"). Trans. William Stewart Rose. London, 1910. First published in Italian, 1516; revised, 1521 and 1532. Based upon the third revision.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Book of the Duchess. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W.W. Skeat. Oxford, 1899. The House of Fame. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W.W=2E Skeat. Oxford, 1899. Legend of Good Women. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W.W. Skeat. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900. The Parliament of Fowles. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W.W. Skeat. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900. Troilus and Criseyde. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. W.W. Skeat. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900.
- Gower, John. Confessio Amantis, (aka "Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins"). The Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macauley. Oxford, 1901.
- Henryson, Robert. The Testament of Cresseid. The Poems and Fables of Robert henryson. Ed. David Laing. Edinburgh, 1865.
- Lucan. The Pharsalia of Lucan. Trans. Sir Edward Ridley. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1896.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus. Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy. Trans. A. S. Way. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1913.
- Tasso, Torquato. Gerusalemme Liberata. ("Jerusalem Delivered"). Trans. Edward Fairfax. London, 1600. Ed. Henry Morley. New York, 1901.
Temperley, Nicholas, assisted by Charles G. Manns and Joseph Herl. The hymn tune index: a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. ML 128 .H8T46 1998