Chapter One--The Literary Scene 1
Two--The Life of Shevchenko 8
Three--The Poetry of Shevchenko 36
Four--The Religion of Shevchenko 55
Selected Poems of Shevchenko 61
The Kobzar 63
Dedication 64
Perebendya 67
The Poplar 70
Dumka (What do my black hairs avail me) 76
To Osnovyanenko 78
Ivan Pidkova 81
The Night of Taras 83
Katerina 88
The Haydamaki 108
Prelude 110
To the Eternal Memory of Kotlyarevsky 117
Dumka (Water flows into the blue sea) 120
Hamaliya 121
To Oksana K. 127
The Dream 128
To Šafařík 145
The Great Grave 148
The Caucasus 165
The Epistle 171
The Testament (When I die, O lay my body) 179
In the Fortress, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 180
Poems of Exile 184
1847 (Songs of mine, O songs of mine) 184
N. N. (Sunset is coming, mountains are shadowed) 184
N. N. (My thirteenth birthday was now over) 185
Return 186
Fortune 187
The Muse 187
To Marko Vovchok 189
Mary 190
Hosea, Chapter XIV 211
I do not murmur at the Lord 213
The Approaching End 214
The years of youth are passed away 215
Is it not time for us to stop? 215