Editors’ Note on the New Revised Edition viii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction by Yu Kwang-chung xi
Preface xix
I Portraits
3 1 William Shakespeare: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
7 2 Anonymous: My Love in Her Attire
11 3 Robert Herrick: Upon Her Feet
15 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Fable
21 5 Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle
25 6 Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody!
29 7 Dorothy Parker: The Very Rich Man
33 8 Ogden Nash: The Purist
37 9 Richard Armour: The Ant
41 10 Gwendolyn Brooks: The Bean Eaters
II Between Man and Woman
47 11 Edward Herbert: Inconstancy’s the Greatest of Sins
51 12 Thomas Moore: Did Not
57 13 John Boyle O’Reilly: A White Rose
61 14 A. E. Housman: When I Was One-and-Twenty
65 15 W. B. Yeats: When You Are Old
69 16 Frances Cornford: The Guitarist Tunes Up
73 17 Greg Moss: Logodrama
III Parents and Children, Teachers and Students
81 18 Theresa Helburn: Mother
85 19 Robert Penn Warren: Old Photograph of the Future
91 20 Theodore Roethke: My Papa’s Waltz
95 21 Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
99 22 Donald Hall: My Son, My Executioner
103 23 Seamus Heaney: Mother of the Groom
107 24 Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
111 25 Tom Romano: The Teacher
IV Life and Aspiration
119 26 Walter Savage Landor: Plays
123 27 Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest
127 28 Emily Dickinson: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
131 29 Robert Frost: Fire and Ice
135 30 John Masefield: Sea Fever
139 31 Robert Francis: The Hound
143 32 Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
147 33 Richard Wilbur: Parable
151 34 Linda Pastan: Ethics
V Time, Nature
159 35 William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up
163 36 Robert Frost: Nothing Gold Can Stay
167 37 Robert Frost: Dust of Snow
171 38 Louis Untermeyer: Long Feud
177 39 Sylvia Plath: Frog Autumn
181 40 James Simmons: A Birthday Poem
VI About Creation
187 41 Marianne Moore: Poetry
191 42 Edna St. Vincent Millay: To a Young Poet
195 43 Richard Wilbur: The Writer
201 44 Denise Levertov: The Secret
207 45 A. R. Ammons: Unsaid
213 46 John Hollander: A One-line Poem
217 47 D. C. Berry: Fish-poetry reading
221 48 Larry Rubin: God Opens His Mail
227 49 Linda Pastan: Prosody 101
233 50 Richard Jones: The Bell
237 Appendices
245 Bibliography
247 Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
增修新版說明 viii
誌謝 x
觀弈者言──我讀《好詩大家讀》 余光中 xi
前言 xix
一、人物描寫
3 1. 莎士比亞:我情人的眼一點兒也不像太陽
7 2. 佚名:我的情人會穿衣
11 3. 羅勃.何立:伊的美足
15 4. 愛默生:寓言
21 5. 丁尼森:鷹
25 6. 狄瑾蓀:我是小人物!
29 7. 桃樂西.派克:極有錢的人
33 8. 奧頓.那許:一板一眼的人
37 9. 阿莫:螞蟻
41 10. 卜如詩:豆食者
二、男女之間
47 11. 艾華.賀伯:負心之罪
51 12. 湯瑪斯.摩爾:沒有
57 13. 歐來里:一朵白玫瑰
61 14. 郝思蒙:那年我二十一歲
65 15. 葉慈:等到你年老
69 16. 福蘭絲.康福:吉他手調琴
73 17. 貴格.莫思:詞性劇
三、親子.師生
81 18. 黑爾本:母親
85 19. 羅勃.潘.華倫:未來的舊相片
91 20. 芮德格:爸爸的華爾滋 91
95 21. 羅勃.黑登:那些冬日的星期天
99 22. 多納.霍爾:我兒,我的劊子手
103 23. 席慕.黑尼:新郎的母親
107 24. 惠特曼:一堂天文課
111 25. 羅曼諾:老師
四、人生.理想
119 26. 藍德:扮戲
123 27. 狄瑾蓀:成功滋味何其甜
127 28. 狄瑾蓀:希望鑲著羽毛
131 29. 佛洛斯特:火與冰
135 30. 梅斯斐:海戀
139 31. 富蘭西斯:獵犬
143 32. 史密斯:不是在招手
147 33. 理查.韋伯:寓言
151 34. 林妲.派斯坦:倫理學
五、時間.自然
159 35. 華滋華斯:我心雀躍
163 36. 佛洛斯特:黃金事物難久留
167 37. 佛洛斯特:雪塵
171 38. 恩特麥:宿怨
177 39. 秀雅.蒲樂:蛙之秋
181 40. 詹姆.西門子:生日詩
六、創作.欣賞
187 41. 瑪麗安.穆爾:詩
191 42. 愛娜.米雷:致某青年詩人
195 43. 理查.韋伯:作家
201 44. 德妮斯.雷維多:祕密
207 45. 安蒙斯:言外
213 46. 賀蘭德:單行詩
217 47. 貝瑞:魚──詩歌朗誦
221 48. 拉瑞.魯賓:上帝拆信
227 49. 林妲.派斯坦:詩律學入門
233 50. 理查.鍾士:鐘
237 附錄
245 參考書目
247 索引(依作者、詩題、首行字母序排列)