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[Introduction] 9

POEMS.

BALLADS:

[The Monk] 13
[Hamaleia] 21
[The Night of Taras] 30

TALE:

[Naimechka; or The Servant] 39

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POETRY:

[Caucasus] 68
[To the Dead] 81
[A Dream] 96
[The Bondwoman’s Dream] 106
[To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls] 109

POEMS OF EXILE:

[A Poem of Exile] 114
[Memories of Freedom] 120
[Memories of an Exile] 123
[Death of the Soul] 124
[Hymn of Exile] 126

RELIGIOUS POEMS:

[On the 11th Psalm] 130
[Prayers] 132

EARLY POEMS:

[Mighty Wind] 136
[The Water Fairy] 138

HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL:

[Hymn of the Nuns] 140
[To the Goddess of Fame] 141

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PREDICTION AND FAREWELL:

[Iconoclasm] 143
[My Testament] 144

BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS.

[Who Was Taras Shevchenko] 11
[The Cossacks] 19
[Kobzars] 29
[The Forming of a Life] 36
[A Father’s Legacy] 67
[The Meaning of Serfdom] 79
[Freedom and Friends] 94
[A Triumphal March] 103
[Autocrat Versus Poet] 112
[Siberian Exile] 118
[Returning Home] 127

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