Contents -- Introduction -- Thanks & Acknowledgments -- PRELUDIUM -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- from The Social Contract -- from Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- Emanuel Swedenborg -- from The Spiritual Diary -- Denis Diderot -- from Rameau's Nephew: An Improvisation -- Christopher Smart -- from Jubilate Agno -- Erasmus Darwin -- from The Loves of the Plants: Mimosa and Tremella -- James Macpherson -- from Ossian: The Songs of Selma -- Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade -- from Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded -- Francisco Goya -- Four Caprichos -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Prometheus -- Thomas Chatterton -- from The Rowley Poems: An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As wroten bie the goode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 -- Seven Ancient Monuments: Map of Rudhall and Redcliff Wall -- Mary Robinson -- from A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination -- William Blake -- from America a Prophecy: Preludium -- A FIRST GALLERY: From Goethe & Blake to Solomos & Pushkin -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Mignon's Song -- from Scenes from the Faust of Goethe [two versions] -- from Venetian Epigrams -- from Trilogy of Passion: The Marienbad Elegy -- The Metamorphosis of Plants -- from Theory of Color: The Blindingly Bright Colorless Form -- William Blake -- from Songs of Innocence and of Experience -- from An Island in the Moon: Chap 9 -- The Mental Traveller -- from Milton, Book the First: The Vortex -- from Milton, Book the Second: "There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True" -- from Jerusalem: The Covering Cherub -- Joseph Joubert -- from The Notebooks: 1789 - 1794 -- Mary Robinson -- A London Summer Morning -- To the Poet Coleridge -- from Sappho and Phaon: Six Sonnets -- Robert Burns -- A Red, Red Rose -- Love and Liberty. A Cantata -- Jean Paul [Richter].

First Flower-Piece: Speech of the Dead Christ from the Top of the Universe: That There Is No God -- Germaine de Staël -- Corinne's Improvisation in the Naples Countryside -- Corinne's Last Song -- Friedrich Hölderlin -- I Once Asked the Muse -- In the Forest -- Palimpsest: Columbus -- William Wordsworth -- Lines Written in Early Spring -- The Female Vagrant -- Nine Sonnets: From London to Paris, August/September 1802 -- from The Prelude, Book Fifth: Books -- Ode: "There was a time" -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- from The Grasmere Journals -- Grasmere, Lineated -- Novalis -- from Faith and Love or The King and the Queen -- from Hymns to the Night [5 and 6] -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment -- Dejection: An Ode -- Urine -- Fragments from the Gutch Notebook -- Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue -- Ne Plus Ultra -- Charles Fourier -- from The Theory of the Four Movements -- The Phalanx at Dawn -- Thomas De Quincey -- Dream-Fugue: On the Theme of Sudden Death -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Darkness -- from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto Three -- from Don Juan: Dedication -- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year -- Giuseppe Belli -- Eleven Roman Sonnets: For the Pope -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Song from Prometheus Unbound -- On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery -- Queen Mab: Canto VII -- England in 1819 -- from Peter Bell the Third: Hell -- "Arethusa," with Robert Duncan's "Shelley's Arethusa Set to New Measures" -- Ode to Liberty -- John Clare -- [I Am: A Sonnet & a Variation] -- The Badger: A Sequence -- from Letter to Messrs Taylor and Hessey -- [Mouse's Nest] -- Emmonsails Heath in Winter -- from The Progress of Rhyme -- Jack Randalls Challenge to All the World -- To John Clare -- Letter to Mr. Jas. Hipkins -- John Keats -- Butterflies, Lineated.

"What can I do to drive away" -- from Endymion, Book One: Hymn to Pan -- Sonnet: "If by dull rhymes" -- Meg Merrilies -- Sonnet: "Bright star" -- Ode to Psyche -- Ode to a Nightingale -- Dream and Dream Sonnet: Paolo and Francesca -- Ode on Melancholy -- "This living hand" -- Heinrich Heine -- Ezra Pound, after Heine: Und Drang -- Morphine -- Heine per Gerard de Nerval -- from Ludwig Börne: A Memorial -- from Germany: A Winter's Tale [23 - 26] -- Adam Mickiewicz -- from Crimean Sonnets: The Ruins of the Castle of Balaklava -- The Romantic -- from Pan Tadeusz -- from Forefathers' Eve: The Great Improvisation -- Giacomo Leopardi -- L'Infinito -- Saturday Night in the Village -- from Operette Morali: Announcement of Prizes by the Academy of Syllographs -- Broom, or the Flower of the Desert -- Dionysios Solomos -- The Destruction of Psara -- The Shark -- The Woman of Zante -- Aleksander Pushkin -- The Emperor Nicholas I -- The Prophet -- from The Bronze Horseman: Introduction -- Tsar Nikita and His Daughters -- from Eugene Onegin: Onegin at the Theater -- A BOOK OF ORIGINS -- Prologue -- William Blake -- from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Ancient Poets -- E. A. Wallis Budge -- from The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Chapter of Changing into Ptah -- G. R. S. Mead -- from Pistis Sophia: O Light of Lights [Coptic Gnostic] -- Sir William Jones -- Two from Sanskrit -- Edward FitzGerald -- from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Farsi] -- Daniel G. Brinton -- from Rig Veda Americanus: Two for the Goddess [Aztec] -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Song of the Owl [Ojibwa] -- Washington Matthews -- from The Night Chant: Prayer of the First Dancers [Navajo] -- Francis J. Child -- Sir Patrick Spence -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Homer's Hymn to the Moon [Greek] -- Vuk Karadžic.́

A Poem for the Goddess Her City & the Marriage of Her Son & Daughter [Serbian] -- Lady Charlotte Guest -- Hanes Taliesin / The Tale of Taliesin [Welsh] -- Esaias Tegnér / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- from Frithiof's Saga [Icelandic / Swedish] -- Christmas Gysarts [Mummers] Play from Bowden -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- from Negro Spirituals -- Anonymous -- Song of the Bald Mountain Witches & Magic Nymphs [Russian] -- Five Dream Works, from Coleridge to Freud -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from The Notebooks -- Mary Shelley: The King of Cats, a Ghost Narrative -- Gerard de Nerval: from Aurelia, or Dream and Life -- Georg Büchner: from Lenz -- Sigmund Freud: from The Dream-Work -- Charles Darwin -- from The Origin of Species -- A SECOND GALLERY: From Hugo & Lönnrot to Swinburne & Mallarmé -- Victor Hugo -- The Grave and the Rose -- The Slope of Reverie -- Russia 1812 -- from The Art of Being a Grandfather -- from God: The Threshold of the Abyss -- Ma Destinée -- Elias Lönnrot -- from Kalevala: In the Beginning -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes [Epigraph] from Death's Jest Book, Act One -- Dream of Dying -- A Crocodile -- from Death's Jest Book: Three Songs -- Dream-Pedlary -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Two Sonnets, for George Sand -- A Musical Instrument -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese: Three Sonnets -- from Aurora Leigh, Fifth Book [excerpt] -- Aloysius Bertrand -- from Gaspard de la Nuit: Preface and Six Poems -- Gerard de Nerval [Epigraph] from Aurelia, or Dream and Life -- Panorama -- Les Chimères -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Days -- Woods: A Prose Sonnet -- from The Notebooks: "Turtle in swamp" -- Hamatreya -- Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing -- Blight -- Bacchus -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Sonnet-Silence -- The Haunted Palace -- from Eureka, a Prose Poem -- Alfred Tennyson -- "Flower in the crannied wall" -- The Hesperides.

from Maud, or The Madness "Come into the garden, Maud" -- Robert Browning -- "Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes" -- Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology in the Island -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister -- Edward Lear -- Eight Limericks -- Mr and Mrs Discobbolos -- Letter to Mrs Stuart Wortley: The Moon Journey -- "How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" -- Søren Kierkegaard -- The Illegible Letter -- from Either/Or: Diapsalmata -- Nebuchadnezzar -- Mikhail Lermontov -- My Demon -- Untitled Poem -- A Dream -- New Year's Poem -- Walt Whitman -- Fragment from "The Sleepers" -- from Song of Myself: "I have heard what the talkers were talking" -- This Compost -- Respondez! or Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness -- I Sing the Body Electric -- Good-bye My Fancy! -- Herman Melville -- Lines-after Shakespeare -- The Maldive Shark -- from Moby Dick Father Mapple's Hymn -- The Cabin -- A Squeeze of the Hand -- from Billy Budd: Billy in the Darbies -- Cyprian Norwid -- The Sphinx -- What Did You Do to Athens, Socrates? -- Chopin's Piano -- Charles Baudelaire -- Correspondences -- Two Prose Poems -- A Carrion -- Litanies of Satan -- The Voyage -- To the Reader -- Sándor Petöfi -- The Madman -- Homer and Ossian -- from The Apostle [1, 3, 4] -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- from Dante's New Life: His Pitiful Song -- Troy Town -- The Blessed Damozel: A Double Work of Art -- from A Trip to Paris and Belgium -- Emily Dickinson -- #1249 "Had I not seen the Sun" -- Poem fragment: "We do not think / enough of the / Dead" -- #627 "I think I was enchanted" -- #764 "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - " -- #706 "I cannot live with You - " -- #778 "Four Trees - opon a solitary Acre - " -- Visual poem: "A poor - torn heart - a tattered heart" -- To Recipient Unknown -- Christina Rossetti -- My Dream -- The Convent Threshold -- from Goblin Market.

Sousandrade [Joaquim de Sousa Andrade].