Re: pointing used outside the Bible.

Scans of almost everything mentioned available on request (I don't think
I have any Shemer, Bialik, or Amichai poetry books at home, but I have
prayer-books, Lord of the Rings (and Silmarillion for that matter), and
Mishna).

Or even simpler, go check out http://benyehuda.org/ which is a
repository of public-domain Hebrew poetry and prose. A poetry page
pulled at random: http://benyehuda.org/gnessin/lanavi.html Make sure you
have a browser/font that can handle vowel-points. And there are many,
many, many other poetry pages equally vocalized.

~mark