from History of a Crime : Paris sleeps; the doorbell rings ; How dark the crime was
from Napoleon the Little : Biography ; 5 April 1852 ; The littleness of the master
from Things Seen : Writing to France ; Charles II
from The Empire in the Pillory : 'When, France, you are mere prostrate slaves...' ; 'Night
dark night, deep, and full of drowsy things...' ; Apotheosis ; The man has laughed ; The joint commissions ; The black hunter ; 'I was in Brussels, it was June...' ; The last word
from Contemplations : The birds ; Unity ; Wayside pause ; 'I was reading. Reading what? The timeless poem...' ; The beggar ; Lowing of oxen ; Apparition ; Cerigo ; 'The poet's verse-form used to pillage April's basket...' ; The weather clears ; 'The soul dives in the chasm...'
from the Four Winds of the Spirit : Storm
from God : from The threshold of the abyss ; from The Eagle
from the reliquat of God : 'What do you think of death, you vain philosopher?...' ; 'The depths of the I Am are swathed in cloud...'
from The Legend of the Ages : The consecration of woman ; Boaz asleep ; Christ's first encounter with the tomb
from Songs of Street and Wood : Connubial bliss ; 'Nature? she's amorous everywhere...' ; From woman to heaven ; An alcove in the sunrise ; During an illness
from Les Miserables : Waterloo ; Grandeur among the middle classes ; The house in the Rue Plumet ; Leviathan's intestine
from The Toilers of the Sea : A turbulent life and a tranquil conscience ; The old old story of utopia ; The story of utopia, continued ; A quirk of Lethierry's character ; A contradiction
from Deeds and Words : Emily de Putron
from Things Seen : The death of Madame Victor Hugo.
from Odes and Ballads : The Song of the circus ; To a traveller
from Orientalia : Zara Bathing
from Things Seen : Joanny
from A Blend of Literature and Philosophy : from Journal of the ideas and opinions of a revolutionary of 1830
from Notre-Dame de Paris : Notre-Dame ; An Impartial peep at the magistrates of old
from Autumn Leaves : Heard on the mountain ; 'Sometimes , beneath the clouds' deceptive twists...'
from Songs of the Half-Light : A Ball at the hotel de Ville ; 'O that I could fill you deep reverie...' ; 'The rest of them drift any way at all...'
from Sunlight and Shadows : A popular man ; 'Indian caverns! tombs! monumental arrays...' ; The Shadow
from Contemplations : Therese's party ; For dust thou art ; Written on the plinth of an ancient bas-relief ; 'The child saw grandma busy spinning...'
from Last Gleanings : 'Life, dear sir, is a comedy...'
from The Four Winds of the Spirit : Near Avranches
from Things Seen : Talleyrand
from Alps and Pyrenees : Bayonne.
from Things Seen : King Louis-Philippe ; Villemain
from Les Miserables : A righteous man ; The fall
from Things Seen : The living pictures ; The princes
from Contemplations : Uttered in the shadows ; While looking at the heavens one evening ; 'At first, oh! I was like a maniac...' ; 'While mariners, who estimate and doubt...' ; Veni, vidi, vixi ; 'Tomorrow, when the fields grow light...'
from Things Seen : At the academie francaise ; The death of Balzac
from Deeds and Words : Balzac's funeral
from Things Seen : Pius IX and Louis Bonaparte
from Deeds and Words : Proposed grant to Monsieur Bonaparte
from The Whole Lyre : Postscript.
from Things Seen : The return to France ; A prayer
from The Legend of the Ages : The vanished city ; Orpheus ; 'I knew Firdausi in Mysore, long since...' ; After the Caudine Forks
from The Art of Being a Grandfather : For Georges ; The immaculate conception revisited ; Jeanne asleeep, iv
from the Whole Lyre : Letter ; Waking impressions ; Hail, goddess, hail from one about to die
from Religions and Religion : 'Dante wrote two lines...'
from History of a Crime : The Rue Tiquetonne
from Things Seen : The emperor of Brazil
from Deeds and Words : The Hernani dinner
'Suddenly the door opened...'
Appendix: The structure of the Contemplations, The Legend of the Ages, and God
