• Introduction by Mark Valentine ...7
• Prelude...21

PART ONE

• Ashtoreth...29
• Parfait Amour...30
• Opium...32
• Sombre Sonnet...33
• Langour...34
• Ennui...35
• Litany...36
• Harvard...39
• Pride...40
• Song Of Golden Youth...41
• Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie En Rouge...43
• Louanges D'Elle...45
• Hélas...46
• Sonnet...47
• Sonnet...49
• Rondeau...50
• Autumn Song...51
• Ballad...52
• Changelessness...54
• Madonna...55
• Poppy Song...56
• Consolation...59
• Liebes-Tod...60
• Evening Song...62
• Song Of The Stars In Praise Of Her...64
• Aubade...66
• Remember...68
• Song...69
• Song...70
• Constancy...72
• Requiem...73
• Autumn Burial...75
• Sonnet Of Burial...78
• Nocturne...79

PART TWO

• Mad Sonnet...89
• The House Of Youth...90
• De Profundis...92
• Prayer...94
• Sestettes...95
• Sonnet Of The Instruments Of Death...99
• Truth...100
• Hegel...101
• Monotony...102
• Sepulture...103
• Miserrimus...104
• Scorn...105
• The Grave...106
• Mummy...108
• Sepulchral Life...109
• Corpse...110
• Mankind...111
• The Defilers...112
• The Grotesques...113
• Dead Dialogue...117
• Fragments...122
• Envoi...133

POSTLUDE

• Song Of India...137
• Dedication...143

PART THREE

• After-Life...147
• To The Mona Lisa Of Da Vinci...148

PART FOUR

• The Art Of The Future...151
• Thoughts On A Decadent Universe by Thomas Ligotti...167