亲爱的读者朋友《诗苑小憩》这套小书是为那些想轻松潇洒地到诗歌园地里游荡，粗粗领略一下英美诗歌风貌的读者们设计的。构成诗境风光的都是各个时代著名诗家的名篇佳作。为了帮助读者理解，编者对作者和作品作了蜻蜓点水式的介绍，让读者随着扩散开的水波自己去感受，能有多远就多远，能有多深就多深。原文中较难的词汇，还作了适当的注解。

1 The Cuckoo Song

布谷鸟之歌

2 Green Groweth the Holly

冬青发新枝

3 What Should I Say

我还能有何言

4 The Soote Season

甘美的季节

5 Of Money

论钱

6 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

痴情的牧羊人致爱人

7 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

林中仙女答牧羊人

8 Of His Cynthia

他的狄安娜

9 Love Is a Sickness

爱是一种病

10 Spring

春之歌

……

And we will sit upon the rocks,

Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow revers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.