本书精选英美著名诗篇，有爱情诗、爱国诗、友情诗、自然诗。所选诗歌均为著名诗人的抒情力作。诗是最传情的文学种类，语言雅致，情感丰富，意象优美，具有很强的愉悦功能和教育功能。通过诗歌学习英语是很好的途径。学英语，要用最好的语料；学英语，要掌握优美词语；学英语，最好背诵名篇。本书提供丰盛的精神食粮，提供爱国主义素材，提供爱情表达语汇，提高读者人文素质和修养，提供金课好教材和好读物。

李正栓：北京大学文学博士，苏格兰斯特灵大学荣誉博士；河北师范大学英国文学教授，校学术带头人；河北省中青年骨干教师，省高校教学名师，省社会科学优秀青年专家，“河北中青年社科专家五十人工程”人员。
教育部外国语言文学类教学指导委员会英语分委员会委员，教育部高等学校翻译专业教学协作组成员；中国译协理事和专家会员，中国英汉语比较研究会典籍英译委员会常务副会长兼秘书长，中国中美比较文化研究会常务理事，全国英国文学研究会常务理事，中国外匡I文学研究会英语文学分会理事；河北省高等学校教学指导委员会主任委员，河北省高等学校外语教学研究会会长。
曾七次获河北省优秀科研成果奖，五次获河北省优秀教学成果奖。
主要学术兴趣为英美诗歌、中英诗歌互译及译评。出版邓恩研究、文艺复兴时期诗歌研究、美国诗歌研究等方面专著5部，英美文学教材8部；发表多篇邓恩研究、彭斯研究、文艺复兴时期诗人研究和翻译研究方面的文章。近年来，出版多部诗歌译著（中译英）。

Part One British Poetry
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Spring
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Amoretti: Sonnet 75
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet 18
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Song: To Celia
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Flea
Death Be Not Proud
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Virtue
John Milton (1608-1674)
On His Blindness
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going To The Wars
William Blake (1757-1827)
London
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
My Heart's In The Highlands
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
My Heart Leaps Up
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks In Beauty
When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
A Song
John Keats (1795-1821)
On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Elizabeth Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee)
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Break, Break, Break
Crossing The Bar
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Home Thoughts, From Abroad
Meeting At Night
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Remember
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Man He Killed
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Pied Beauty
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
Loveliest Of Trees
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
When You Are Old
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
Piano
Rupert Brook (1887-1915)
The Soldier
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
Funeral Blues
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Hawk Roosting
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
The Play Way
Part Two American Poetry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm Of Life
Snowflakes
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Annabel Lee
Sonnet: To Science
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
O Captain! My Captain!
I Hear America Singing
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I'm Nobody!
"Hope" Is The Thing With Feathers
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Black Riders Came From The Sea
In The Desert
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Road Not Taken
Fire And Ice
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Fog
Grass
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just To Say
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In A Station Of The Metro
A Pact
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Oread
Never More Will The Wind
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Love Is More Thicker Than Forget
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Dreams
I, Too, Sing America
Harlem
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