| To My Odes | 3 |
| The Captive | 5 |
| Moonlight | 9 |
| The Djinns | 11 |
| Reverie | 17 |
| Rapture | 19 |
| The Slope of Reverie | 21 |
| Setting Suns (II) | 29 |
| Setting Suns (VI) | 31 |
| To the Column | 33 |
| To Albrecht Durer | 39 |
| 'The war that scoundrel wages ...' | 41 |
| The Cow | 43 |
| 'Just as in a forest's drowsy pools ... ' | 45 |
| Written on the pane of a Flemish window | 45 |
| Olympio's Sadness | 47 |
| Oceano Nox | 55 |
| June Nights | 59 |
| Memory of the Night of the Fourth | 61 |
| What the poet said to himself in 1848 | 63 |
| The Expiation | 65 |
| To the People | 85 |
| Stella | 87 |
| 'Blow forever, trumpets of thought ... ' | 89 |
| 'It was raining that night ... ' | 91 |
| 'The poet goes away into the fields ... ' | 95 |
| My Two Daughters | 95 |
| 'The clarity that fills ... ' | 97 |
| To Andre Chenier | 99 |
| Life in the Fields | 99 |
| Reply to an Act of Accusation | 105 |
| Vere Novo | 115 |
| The Party at Therese's | 115 |
| 'Happy the man ... ' | 121 |
| A Stop in the Middle of a Walk | 121 |
| The Spinning Wheel of Omphale | 125 |
| Letter | 127 |
| Words Spoken in the Shadows | 129 |
| Written on the Bottom of a Crucifix | 131 |
| 'Seeing her grandmother occupied spinning wool ... ' | 131 |
| Magnitudo Parvi | 131 |
| 'I felt I had gone mad ... ' | 135 |
| 'She had formed this habit ... ' | 135 |
| 'She was place ... ' | 137 |
| 'Oh spring! oh dawn! on memories! ... ' | 139 |
| Veni, Vidi, Vixi | 143 |
| 'Tomorrow, at dawn ... ' | 145 |
| At Villequier | 147 |
| Mors | 155 |
| The Beggar | 157 |
| Words on the Dunes | 159 |
| Mugitusque Boum | 161 |
| 'I paid the fisherman ... ' | 163 |
| Shepherds and Flocks | 165 |
| 'I gathered this flower for you on the hill ... ' | 167 |
| 'Strophe of the poet ... ' | 169 |
| 'A shade was waiting ... ' | 171 |
| 'One day the solemn spirit ... ' | 173 |
| Clearing | 173 |
| Nomen, Numen, Lumen | 175 |
| To the One Who Stayed Behind in France | 177 |
| Sowing Season, Evening | 197 |
| 'The troop of children read and spell ... ' | 197 |
| The Lion's Midday Sleep | 201 |
| 'I'm setting out to narrate that horrific year ... ' | 203 |
| On Top of Paris's Ramparts | 203 |
| 1 January | 205 |
| Letter to a Woman | 205 |
| Open Windows | 211 |
| Jeannine Asleep ('She's asleep ... ') | 211 |
| Conscience | 215 |
| Boaz Asleep | 217 |
| Christ's First Encounter with the Tomb | 223 |
| The Hydra | 229 |
| Mohammed | 229 |
| The Parricide | 229 |
| The Work of the Prisoners | 237 |
| The Infanta's Rose | 241 |
| After the Battle | 253 |
| The Sister of Mercy | 255 |
| After the Battle of the Caudine Forks | 257 |
| Et Nox Facta Est | 259 |
| 'The hexameter ... ' | 261 |
| The Theophile Gautier | 261 |
| Notes | 267 |
| Index of Titles | 296 |
| Index of First Lines | 301 |
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
