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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword (2005) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Selected Bibliography (a partial listing of works published since 1966) | |
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| Introduction (1966) | |
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| Poesies / Poetry | |
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| 1869 / 1869 | |
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| Les etrennes des orphelins / The Orphans' Gifts (New Year's) | |
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| 1870 / 1870 | |
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| Sensation / Sensation | |
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| Soleil et chair / Sun and Flesh | |
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| Ophelie / Ophelia | |
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| Venus Anadyomene / Venus Anadyomene | |
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| Premiere soiree / The First Evening | |
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| Les reparties de Nina / Nina's Replies | |
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| Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze [...] / "Dead of'92 [...]" | |
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| Les effares / The Frightened Ones | |
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| Roman / Novel | |
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| Reve pour l'hiver / A Dream for Winter | |
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| Le buffet / The Cupboard | |
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| L'eclatante victoire de Sarrebruck / The Dazzling Victory of Sarrebruck | |
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| La maline / The Sly Girl | |
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| Au Cabaret-Vert / At the Cabaret-Vert | |
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| Le dormeur du val / The Sleeper in the Valley | |
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| A la musique / To Music | |
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| Bal des pendus / Dance of the Hanged Men | |
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| Le chatiment de Tartufe / Tartufe's Punishment | |
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| Le forgeron / The Blacksmith | |
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| Ma boheme (Fantaisie) / My Bohemian Life (Fantasy) | |
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| Le mal / Evil | |
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| Rages de Cesars / Caesars' Rages | |
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| Poemes dates de 1871-debut 1872 ou dans des lettres de mai ou juin 1871 / Poems dated 1871-early 1872 or in letters from May or June 1871 | |
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| Le coeur vole / The Stolen Heart | |
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| Chant de guerre parisien / Parisian War Song | |
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| Mes petites amoureuses / My Little Lovers | |
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| Accroupissements / Squattings | |
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| Les poetes de sept ans / Seven-year-old Poets | |
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| L'orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple / Parisian Orgy or Paris is Repopulated | |
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| Les pauvres a l'eglise / The Poor in Church | |
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| Les soeurs de charite / Sisters of Charity | |
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| L'homme juste / The Just Man | |
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| Les premieres Communions / First Communions | |
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| Ce qu'on dit au Poete a propos de fleurs / What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers | |
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| Les mains de Jeanne-Marie / The Hands of Jeanne-Marie | |
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| Poemes non dates (fin 1870-debut 1872?) / Undated poems (late 1870-early 1872?) | |
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| Les assis / The Seated Men | |
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| Le bateau ivre / The Drunken Boat | |
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| Les chercheuses de poux / The Seekers of Lice | |
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| Les douaniers / The Customs Men | |
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| L'etoile a pleure rose [...] / "The star wept rose-colored [...]" | |
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| Oraison du soir / Evening Prayer | |
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| Tete de faune / Faun's Head | |
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| Voyelles / Vowels | |
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| Album zutique (fin 1871-debut 1872?) / Album called "zutique" (end 1871-early 1872?) | |
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| Sonnet du trou du cul / Sonnet to an Asshole | |
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| Lys / Lily | |
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| Vu a Rome / Seen in Rome | |
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| Fete galante / Love Feast | |
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| J'occupais un wagon de troisieme [...] / "I occupied a third-class carriage [...]" | |
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| Je prefere sans doute [...] / "Doubtless I prefer [...]" | |
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| L'Humanite chaussait [...] / "Humanity was putting shoes on [...]" | |
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| Conneries / Nasty Jokes | |
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| Jeune goinfre / Young Glutton | |
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| Paris / Paris | |
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| Cocher ivre / Drunken Coachman | |
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| Vieux de la vieille! / The Old Man of the Old Woman! | |
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| Etat de siege? / State of Siege? | |
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| Le balai / The Brush | |
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| Exil / Exile | |
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| L'angelot maudit / The Outcast Cherub | |
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| Mais enfin, c' [...] / "But finally, th [...]" | |
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| Les soirs d'ete [...] / "Summer evenings [...]" | |
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| Bouts-rimes / Rhymed endings | |
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| Aux livres de chevet [...] / "To the bedside books [...]" | |
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| Hypotyposes saturniennes, ex Belmontet / Saturnian Hypotyposes, taken from Belmontet | |
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| Les remembrances du vieillard idiot / Memories of the Simple-minded Old Man | |
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| Ressouvenir / Remembrance | |
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| D'autres poemes de la periode dite zutique (1871-1872?) / Other poems from the period called "zutique" (1871-1872?) | |
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| Nos fesses ne sont pas les leurs [...] / "Our backsides are not theirs [...]" | |
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| Les anciens animaux [...] / "Ancient animals [...]" | |
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| Vers pour les lieux / Verses for Such Places | |
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| De ce siege si mal tourne [...] / "Of this seat so poorly made [...]" | |
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| Quand le fameux Tropmann [...] / "When the famous Tropmann [...]" | |
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| Poemes dates de, transcrits ou publies en 1872 / Poems dated, transcribed, or published in 1872 | |
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| Comedie de la soif / Comedy of Thirst | |
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| Bonne pensee du matin / A Good Thought in the Morning | |
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| La riviere de Cassis / The Cassis River | |
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| Larme / Tear | |
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| Patience / Patience | |
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| Chanson de la plus haute tour / Song of the Highest Tower | |
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| L'eternite / Eternity | |
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| Age d'or / Golden Age | |
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| Jeune menage / Young Couple | |
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| Est-elle almee? [...] / "Is she an almeh? [...]" | |
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| Fetes de la faim / Feasts of Hunger | |
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| Les corbeaux / The Crows | |
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| L'Enfant qui ramassa les balles [...] / "The Child who picked up the balls [...]" | |
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| Poemes non dates (1872-1873?) / Undated poems (1872-1873?) | |
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| Entends comme brame [...] / "Listen to how [...]" | |
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| Honte / Shame | |
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| Le loup criait sous les feuilles [...] / "The wolf howled under the leaves [...]" | |
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| Memoire / Memory | |
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| Michel et Christine / Michel and Christine | |
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| O saisons, o chateaux [...] / "O seasons, o castles [...]" | |
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| Plates-bandes d'amarantes [...] / "Flowerbands of amaranths [...]" | |
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| Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur [...] / "What does it matter for us, my heart [...]" | |
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| Du temps qu'il etait ecolier / From His Schoolboy Days | |
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| "Le soleil etait encore chaud [...]" / "The sun was still hot [...]" | |
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| Invocation a Venus / Invocation to Venus | |
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| Charles d'Orleans a Louis XI / Charles d'Orleans to Louis XI | |
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| Un coeur sous une soutane / A Heart under a Cassock | |
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| Les deserts de l'amour / Deserts of Love | |
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| Proses dites " evangeliques " / Prose called "evangelical" | |
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| "A Samarie, plusieurs ont manifeste leur foi en lui [...]" / "In Samaria, several displayed their faith in him [...]" | |
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| "L'air leger et charmant de la Galilee [...]" / "The light and charming air of Galilee [...]" | |
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| "Bethsaida, la piscine [...]" / "Bethsaida, the pool [...]" | |
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| Une saison en enfer (1873) / A Season in Hell (1873) | |
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| "Jadis, si je me souviens bien [...]" / "Long ago, if my memory serves me [...]" | |
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| Mauvais sang / Bad Blood | |
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| Nuit de l'enfer / Night in Hell | |
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| Delires / Delirium | |
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| Vierge folle / I. The Foolish Virgin | |
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| Alchimie du verbe / II. Alchemy of the Word | |
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| L'impossible / The Impossible | |
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| L'eclair / Lightning | |
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| Matin / Morning | |
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| Adieu / Farewell | |
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| Illuminations (1872-1874?) / Illuminations (1872-1874?) | |
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| Apres le deluge / After the Flood | |
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| Enfance / Childhood | |
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| Conte / Story | |
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| Parade / Circus | |
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| Antique / Ancient | |
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| Being Beauteous / Being Beauteous | |
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| "O la face cendree [...]" / "Oh! the ashen face [...]" | |
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| Vies / Lives | |
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| Depart / Departure | |
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| Royaute / Royalty | |
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| A une raison / To Reason | |
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| Matinee d'ivresse / Morning of Drunkenness | |
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| Phrases / Phrases | |
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| Ouvriers / Workers | |
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| Les ponts / Bridges | |
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| Ville / City | |
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| Orni`eres / Ruts | |
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| Villes (" Ce sont des villes! [...]") / Cities ("They are cities! [...]") | |
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| Vagabonds / Vagabonds | |
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| Villes ("L'acropole officielle [...]") / Cities ("The official acropolis [...]") | |
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| Veillees / Vigils | |
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| Mystique / Mystic | |
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| Aube / Dawn | |
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| Fleurs / Flowers | |
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| Nocturne vulgaire / Daily Nocturne | |
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| Marine / Seapiece | |
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| Fete d'hiver / Winter Party | |
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| Angoisse / Agony | |
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| Metropolitain / Metropolitan | |
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| Barbare / Barbarian | |
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| Promontoire / Promontory | |
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| Scenes / Scenes | |
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| Soir historique / Historic Evening | |
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| Mouvement / Motion | |
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| Bottom / Bottom | |
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| H / H | |
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| Devotion / Devotions | |
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| Democratie / Democracy | |
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| Fairy / Fairy World | |
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| Guerre / War | |
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| Genie / Genie | |
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| Jeunesse / Youth | |
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| Solde / Sale | |
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| 1870 | |
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| Charleville - A Th. de Banville - 24 mai | |
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| Charleville - A G. Izambard - 25 aout | |
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| Paris - A G. Izambard - 5 septembre | |
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| Charleville - A G. Izambard - 2 novembre | |
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| 1871 | |
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| Charleville - A G. Izambard - 13 mai | |
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| Charleville - A P. Demeny - 15 mai | |
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| Charleville - A P. Demeny - 10 juin | |
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| Charleville - A Th. de Banville - 15 aout | |
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| Charleville - A P. Demeny - 28 aout | |
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| Charleville - A P. Verlaine - septembre | |
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| Paris - De P. Verlaine a A. Rimbaud - septembre | |
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| 1872 | |
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| Parmerde - A E. Delahaye - juin | |
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| 1873 | |
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| Laitou (Roche) - A E. Delahaye - mai | |
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| Londres - A Verlaine - 4-5 juillet | |
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| Londres - A Verlaine - 4-5 juillet | |
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| 1878 | |
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| Alexandrie - Aux siens - decembre | |
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| 1879 | |
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| Larnaca (Chypre) - Aux siens - 15 fevrier | |
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| 1880 | |
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| Mont-Troodos (Chypre) - Aux siens - 23 mai | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 25 aout | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 22 septembre | |
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| 1881 | |
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| Harar - Aux siens - 15 fevrier | |
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| 1882 | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 18 janvier | |
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| 1883 | |
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| Aden - A sa mere et a sa soeur - 6 janvier | |
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| Harar - Aux siens - 6 mai | |
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| 1884 | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 5 mai | |
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| 1885 | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 15 janvier | |
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| Tadjourah - Aux siens - 3 decembre | |
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| 1887 | |
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| Le Caire - Aux siens - 23 aout | |
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| 1888 | |
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| Harar - Aux siens - 4 aout | |
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| 1890 | |
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| Harar - A sa mere - 10 aout | |
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| 1891 | |
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| Harar - A sa mere - 20 fevrier | |
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| Aden - Aux siens - 30 avril | |
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| Marseille - A sa mere et a sa soeur - 21 mai | |
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| Marseille - A sa soeur - 23 juin | |
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| Marseille - Au Directeur des Messageries Maritimes - 9 novembre | |
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| Notes | |