第一章 歌謠 (Ballads and Songs)
1. Anonymous Edward, Edward 愛德華，愛德華 020
2. Anonymous Lord Randal 蘭道爾主公 024
3. Anonymous The Twa Corbis 兩隻烏鴉 039
4. Anonymous The Three Ravens 三隻烏鴉 042
5. Dudley Randall Ballad of Birmingham 伯明罕歌謠 047
6. Anonymous Barbara Allen 芭芭拉‧艾倫 052
7. Anonymous Black is the Color 其色黝黑 059
8. Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee 安娜貝‧李 065
9. Anonymous Kemp Owyne 奧溫武士 076
10. Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory 理查‧柯里 093
11. W. H. Auden Funeral Blues 葬禮藍調 099
第二章 修辭 (Rhetoric)
12. Edwin Arlington Robinson Luke Havergal 盧黑威格 104
13. Sylvia Plath Metaphors 隱喻 110
14. William Butler Yeats Leda and Swan 麗達與天鵝 112
15. William Blake The Sick Rose 病玫瑰 115
16. Robert Frost The Rose Family 玫瑰家庭 118
17. Alfred Tennyson The Eagle 蒼鷹 122
18. Carl Sandburg Fog 霧 124
19. Walter de la Mare The Horseman 騎士 126
20. Herman Melville The Tuft of Kelp 一束海藻 128
21. Orlando Gibbons The Silver Swan 銀天鵝 130
22. Emily Dickinson Presentiment is that lang shadow on the lawn 預兆是草坪上那道長長陰影 133
23. Emily Dickinson My life closed twice before its close 我生命結束前曾閤上兩次 135
24. W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen 無名市民 137
25. Robert Browning My Last Duchess 前公爵夫人141
26. Robert Frost “Out, Out—” 熄了，熄了 148
27. Christopher Marlowe The Face that Launch’d a Thousand Ships 讓千艘戰船遠航的臉（取自《浮士德博士》）(from The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus) 153
28. Edgar Allan Poe To Helen 致海倫 157
29. William Butler Yeats No Second Troy 不要再次特洛伊 160
30. Robinson Jeffers Hands 手掌 163
31. T. S. Eliot The Boston Evening Transcript 波士頓晚報 166
32. Robert Creeley Oh No 噢，不 169
第三章 十四行詩 (Sonnets)
33. John Keats On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 初讀查普曼翻譯荷馬 174
34. William Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold 在那時節你將見我 177
35. William Shakespeare If I profane with my unworthiest hand 假若我用卑微的手（取自《羅密歐與茱麗葉》）(from Romeo and Juliet) 180
36. William Shakespeare O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 啊！美看來會美上多少倍 184
37. William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 我應否把妳比擬作夏日？ 187
38. Howard Moss Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? 我應否把妳比擬作夏日？ 190
39. William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds 我絕不接受兩人真心真意結合 193
40. Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why 我在哪兒吻過哪些唇，及為何？ 196
41. Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night 熟悉夜晚 199
42. Robert Frost The Silken Tent 絲織帳篷 202
43. John Crowe Ransom Piazza Piece 露台小品 205
第四章 箴言詩 (Epigrams)
44. Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness 呈交皇上狗項鍊上刻的箴言 212
45. Sir John Harrington Of Treason 論叛國 213
46. E. E. Cummings A politician 政客 215
47. Anonymous Epitaph on a Dentist 某牙醫墓誌銘（附譯 Edgar Lee Masters《匙河詩選》(Spoon River Anthology)四首） 216
48. John Dryden Epitaph on His Wife 某人太太墓誌銘 223
49. Robert Frost The Secret Sits 祕密坐著 224
50. A. R. Ammons Coward 膽小鬼 226
第五章 十九行二韻詩 (Villanelle)
51. Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night 不要溫柔走入那良夜 228
52. Sylvia Plath Mad Girl’s Love Song 瘋女孩情歌 232
53. Theodore Roethke The Waking 醒來 236
54. Elizabeth Bishop One Art 一種藝術 240
55. W. H. Auden If I Could Tell You 若我能告訴你 243
第六章 六六行詩 (Sestina)
56. Elizabeth Bishop Sestina 六六行詩 248
第七章 頌歌 (Odes)
57. John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn 希臘古甕頌 256
58. Allen Tate Ode to the Confederate Dead 南方邦聯死難頌 263
第八章 英雄傳奇與童話故事 (Legends and Fairy Tales)
59. Alfred Tennyson Ulysses 尤里西斯 276
60. Alfred Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters 食蓮族 284
61. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan 忽必烈汗 290
62. Wallace Stevens Peter Quince at the Clavier 彼得昆斯彈鍵琴 299
63. Anne Sexton Cinderella 灰姑娘 308
第九章 現代詩 (Modern Poetry)
64. Edith Sitwell Still Falls the Rain 雨仍落著 (The Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn) 320
65. Robinson Jeffers Hurt Hawks 傷鷹 327
66. Carolyn Kizer Summer near the River themes from the Tzu Yeh and the Book of Songs 夏日河畔 332
67. Carolyn Kizer Hiding Our Love 隱情 338
68. E. E. Cummings Anyone lived in a pretty how town 誰都住過一個不錯小鎮 341
後記：持人情性‧藉詩言志 347
詩人簡介 (Biographical Sketches) ® 355
索引 I (Index of Authors and Titles) ® 369
索引 II(Index of Terms) ®373
