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Table of Contents:
- From Fervor de Buenos Aires p. 1-32. Prologue
- The Streets
- Recoleta Cemetery
- The South
- Unknown Street
- Truco
- Patin
- Sepulctual Inscription
- Empty Drawing Room
- Year's End
- Remorse For Any Death
- Inscription on Any Tomb
- Break of Day
- Benares
- Simplicity
- Parting
- Lines I Could Have Written and Lost Round About 1922
- From Moon Across The Way p. 33-48. Prologue-- Street with a Pink Corner Store
- Anticipation of Love
- General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage-- Boast of Quietness
- Manuscript Found in a Book of Joseph Conrad
- My Whole Life
- Sunset over Villa Örtüzar
- From San Martin Copybook p. 49-66. Prologue
- The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires
- The Flow of Memories
- Deathwatch on the Southside
- Northern Suburb
- From The Maker p. 67-144. For Leopold Lugones
- The Maker
- Dreamtigers-- A Yellow Rose
- Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote
- Paradiso, XXXI, 108
- Parable of the Palace
- Everything and Nothing
- Ragnarok
- Borges and I
- Poem of the Gifts
- The Hourglass
- Chess
- Mirrors
- The Moon
- Rain
- The Other Tiger
- The Borges-- Ariosto and the Arabs-- Embarking on the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
- Luke XXIII
- Adrogué
- Ars Poetica
- Museum
- On Scientific Rigor-- Quartrain
- Boundaries
- The Poet Proclaims His Reknown
- The Generous Friend
- Le Regret d'Heraclite
- Epilogue
- From The Self And The Other p. 145-246. Prologue-- The Cyclical Night
- Of Heaven and Hell
- Conjectural Poem
- Poem of the Fourth Element
- To a Minor Poet of The Greek Anthology
- A Page to Commemorate Colonel Suárez, Victor at Junín
- Matthew XXV: 30
- The Dagger
- Compass
- A Poet of Thirteenth Century
- A Soldier of Urbina
- Limits
- Baltasar Gracián
- A Saxon (A.D. 449)
- The Golem
- A Rose and Milton
- Readers
- John I: 14
- Waking Up
- To One No Longer Young
- Alexander Selkirk
- Odyssey, Book Twenty-three
- To Minor Poet of 1899
- Texas
- Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf
- To a Sword at York Minster
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Jonathan Edwards
- Emerson
- Camden, 1892
- Paris, 1856
- The Enigmas
- The Instant
- 1964
- The Stranger
- To Whoever Is Reading Me
- The Alchemist-- Someone
- Everness
- Oedipus and the Enigma
- Spinoza
- Elegy
- Adam Cast Forth
- To a Coin
- Ode Written in 1966
- Dream
- The Sea
- A Morning of 1649
- To a Saxon Poet
- To the Son
- From For Six strings p. 247-262. Where Can THey Have Gone?
- Milonga of Manuel Flores
- A Blade in the Northside
- Milonga of Don Nicanor Paredes
- Milonga of Albornoz
- From In Praise of Darkness p. 263-302. Prologue
- Cambridge
- New England, 1967
- James Joyce
- The Labyrinth
- Things
- Rubaíyát
- June, 1968
- The Guardian of The Books
- Invocation to Joyce
- "Two Versions of Knight, Death and the Devil"
- Fragments from an Apocryphal Gospel
- His End and His Beginning
- In Praise of Darkness
- From The Gold Of The Tigers p. 303-340. Prologue
- Tankas
- Susana Bombal
- The Blind Man
- The Search
- 1971
- Things
- A Bust of Janus Speaks
- Poem of Quantity
- The Watcher
- To The German Language
- 1891
- The Dream of Pedro Henríquez Ureña
- The Palace
- Hengist Wants Men (A.D. 449)
- To a Cat
- The Gold of The Tigers
- From The Unending Rose p. 341-368. Prologue
- I
- The Dream
- Browning Resolves to Be a Poet
- The Suicide
- To The Nightingale
- I Am
- A Blind Man
- 1972
- Elegy
- The Exile (1977)
- Talismans
- The Unending Rose
- From The Iron Coin p. 369-388. Prologue
- Nightmare
- México
- To Manuel Mujica Lainez
- Herman Melville
- The Moon
- To Johannes Brahms
- To My Father
- Remorse
- Baruch Spinoza
- For a Version of I Ching
- You Are Not The Others
- The Iron Coin
- From The History of the Night p. 389-414 Alexandria
- Alhambra
- Music Box
- I Am Not Even Dust
- Iceland
- Gunnar Thorgilsson (1816-1879)
- Things That Might Have Been
- The Mirror
- A Saturday
- The Causes
- Adam is Your Ashes
- History of the Night
- From The Limit p. 415-454. Descartes
- The Two Catedrals
- Beppo
- On Acquiring an Encyclopedia
- That Man
- Two Forms of Insomnia
- The Cloisters
- Note for a Fantastic Story
- Epilogue
- Happiness
- The Maker
- Yesterdays
- Nostalgia for the Present
- Poem-- Inferno, V, 129
- Fame
- The Just
- The Accomplice
- Shinto
- The Limit
- From Atlas p. 455-458. My Last Tiger
- From Los Conjurados p. 459-478. Inscription
- Prologue
- Christ on The Cross
- The Afternoon
- Elegy for a Park
- Clouds (I)
- Clouds (II)
- The Leaves of the Cypress
- The Web