The Book of Jade
The speaker who declares weariness and contemplates low states.
Prelude
The speaker who declares weariness with all mortal things and recounts his past indulgences.
Ashtoreth
The speaker who addresses Ashtoreth and offers praise.
Parfait Amour
The speaker who declares his love bound to the beloved's sinfulness and sorrow.
Opium
The speaker who addresses the 'pallid maiden vesperal' and reflects on the ephemeral nature of life and dreams.
Sombre Sonnet
The speaker who loves somber and deathly things.
Languor
The speaker who addresses the beloved with languorous longing and morbid fascination.
Ennui
The speaker who sits in Gomorrah, experiencing ennui and dismissing the seven deadly sins.
Litany
The speaker who expresses profound ennui with all existence.
Harvard
The speaker, addressing his tired muse and expressing ennui with his surroundings.
Pride
The speaker who observes the procession of emotions and maintains a detached, proud stance.
Song of Golden Youth
The speaker who declares a turn from sadness to hedonistic joy, addressing the Muse and celebrating love, laughter, and Lili.
Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge
The speaker addresses Mary directly, reflecting on different life philosophies and expressing a deep, sensual attachment.
Louanges d’Elle
The speaker who invokes the Muse and attempts to praise the beloved.
Hélas
The speaker who addresses the Muse and laments unfulfilled promises.
Sonnet: When I Contemplate How My State Is Low
The speaker who contemplates their low state and pride, longing for death.
Sonnet: Be Not Cast Down My Heart, and Be Not Sad
The speaker addresses his own heart, urging it not to be cast down by sorrow.
Rondeau
The speaker observes the fleeting nature of existence.
Autumn Song
The speaker addresses the skies and earth, commanding them to weep.
Ballad
The narrator describes the lady's journey and actions.
Changelessness
The speaker who addresses the beloved and reflects on death and eternal beauty.
Madonna
The narrator describes the Madonna figure, weaving a portrait of sorrow and death.
Poppy Song
The speaker who addresses the poppy flowers, seeking anodyne and forgetfulness from despair and the burdens of life.
Consolation
The speaker who has known many sorrows and finds solace in the inevitability of death.
Liebes-Tod
The speaker who addresses the beloved and Death, expressing a desire for mortal union and oblivion.
I
The speaker who addresses the beloved with adoration and a longing for dissolution.
II
The speaker who declares his life gone into eclipse and his death from ecstasy.
Evening Song
The speaker who lies between the breasts of his beloved in the lily garden, lost in a dream of slumber.
Song of the Stars in Praise of Her
The speaker of the poem, who addresses the divine feminine figure with adoration.
Aubade
The lady who awakens and laments the loss of love.
Remember
The speaker delivers a warning to those who delight in the skies, urging them to remember the coming night and sorrow.
Song: She Hath Liv’d the Life of a Rose
The speaker mourns the passing of a fair woman, addressing her directly as 'thou'.
Song: Cometh a Day and a Night
The speaker describes the coming of death and decay.
Constancy
The speaker who addresses the dead beloved with constancy and defiance.
Requiem
The speaker who mourns and orchestrates the funeral rites for the beloved.
Autumn Burial
The narrator describes the funeral scene and the burial of the fair one.
Sonnet of Burial
The speaker addresses the deceased beloved, reflecting on their burial and the cessation of their earthly desires and sorrows.
Nocturne
The speaker who yearns to escape the world with the beloved.
Mad Sonnet
The speaker who cries out to God in despair and weariness.
The House of Youth
The speaker reflects on his weary journey and his conflicted feelings toward the House of Youth.
De Profundis
The speaker who calls from the grave, lamenting his fallen state and pleading with God.
Sestettes
The speaker who addresses the beloved, celebrates woe, and contemplates death and love.
I
The speaker who addresses 'thou' and reflects on woe and transformation.
II
The speaker who addresses the beloved, having won joy from pain.
III
The speaker who addresses the beloved and invokes death.
IV
The speaker who declares an intense, death-bound love.
V
The speaker who contemplates the nature of death.
VI
The speaker who mourns the beloved's imperfect cruelty.
VII
The speaker describes a universal thirst and a resolve to drain the cup of life completely.
VIII
The speaker addresses the heart, reflecting on the emptiness of both sadness and gladness.
Sonnet of the Instruments of Death
The speaker who catalogs death's instruments and addresses the souls who commune with death.
Truth
The speaker who has ceaselessly sought Truth but remains in despair and uncertainty.
Hegel
The speaker expresses dead hope and a stony heart, reading Hegel in a state of existential despair.
Monotony
The speaker whose soul lies dead and rotten, experiencing endless pain from the monotony of time.
Sepulture
The speaker who laments his inner desolation and sits enthroned among his dead hopes.
Miserrimus
The speaker who sits in the last depth of hell, crushed to hopeless stone, observing the damned pass by.
Scorn
The dead speaker who scornfully addresses the worms and toads inhabiting his corpse.
The Grave
The speaker who lies dead and rotting in the grave, expressing weariness and a squirming love toward an unnamed 'thou'.
Mummy
The speaker addresses the mummy directly, reflecting on its perfected state.
Sepulchral Life
The speaker observes the world's decay and reflects on the futility of human aspirations.
Corpse
The narrator describes the corpse and warns of the curse upon those who see it.
Mankind
The speaker who observes and condemns the living-dead state of mankind.
The Defilers
The speaker who rails against humanity's corruption and decay.
The Grotesques
The speaker who observes and describes the four grotesque corpses in the tomb.
I
The speaker who observes and describes the corpse in the tomb.
II
The speaker who witnesses and describes the macabre procession of the dead corpse.
III
The speaker who observes and addresses the dead corpse, questioning its divinity and ultimately dismissing it as mere dust.
IV
The observer who describes the corpse and its macabre animation.
Fragments
The speaker who journeys through all states of being and questions the meaning of existence.
I
The narrator who moves through the throng, observing and rejecting each group's way of life.
II
The seeker who questions the Absolute and witnesses its degradation.
III
The speaker recounts their personal spiritual journey and ultimate disillusionment with all states of being.
Envoi
The speaker who declares arrival at absolute sorrow and then embraces a defiant, weary joy.
Postlude
The narrator reflects on the preceding events and themes, embodying a voice of existential exhaustion.
Song of India
The speaker who has journeyed from the North to India and now addresses Zulaikha.
Dedication
The speaker who dedicates the poem to his brother.
After-Life
The speaker who has died and now rests in stillness, their spirit transforming into a rose.
