- "The Money-lender" (Rostovshchik, 1844)
- "On the Road" (V doroge, 1845)
- "Motherland" (1846)
- "The Doghunt" (Psovaya okhota, 1846)
- On the Street (Na Ulitse, 1850), 4 poems cycle
- "The Fine Match" (Prekrasnaya partia, 1852)
- "Unmowed Line" (Neszhataya polosa, 1854)
- "Vlas" (1855)
- "V.G. Belinsky" (1855)
- Sasha (1855)
- "The Forgotten Village" (Zabytaya derevnya, 1855)
- "Musings at the Front Door" (Razmyshlenya u paradnovo pod’ezda, 1858)
- "The Unhappy Ones (Neschastnye, 1856)
- "The Poet and the Citizen" (Poet i grazhdanin, 1856)
- "Silence" (Tishina, 1857)
- "The Song for Yeryomushka" (Pesnya Yeryomushke, 1859)
- Korobeiniki (1861)
- "The Funeral" (Pokhorony, 1861)
- "Peasant Children" (Krestyanskiye deti, 1861)
- "A Knight for An Hour" (Rytsar na thas, 1862)
- "Green Roar" (Zelyony shum, 1862)
| - "Orina, the Soldier's Mother" (Orina, mat soldatskaya, 1863)
- The Railway (Zheleznaya doroga, 1864)
- "Grandfather Frost the Red Nose" (Moroz, Krasny nos, 1864)
- Contemporaries (Sovremenniki, 1865)
- Songs of the Free Word (Pesni svobodnovo slova, 1865–1866)
- Poems for Russian Children (Stikhotvorenya, posvyashchyonnye russkim detyam, 1867–1873)
- "The Bear Hunt. Scenes from the lyrical comedy" (Medvezhya okhota, 1867)
- Grandfather (Dedushka, 1870)
- "The Recent Times" (Nedavneye vremya, 1871)
- Russian Women (Russkiye zhenshchiny: 1872–1873), a dilogy
- "The Morning" (Utro, 1873)
- "The Horrible Year" (Strashny god, 1874)
- The Last Songs (Poslednye pesni, 1877), a cycle
- Who Is Happy in Russia? (Komu na Rusi zhit khorosho, 1863–1876)
- There is No Hiding a Needle in a Sack (Shila v meshke ne utayich, 1841)
- The Life and Adventures of Tikhon Trostnikov (Zhizn i pokhozhdenya Tikhona Trostnikova, 1843–1848) – autobiographical novel, unfinished
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