Part 1 致愛人:那些愛的關係
1. 介系詞片語 Byron, She Walks in Beauty
2. 感嘆句 Thomas Hardy, How Great My Grief
3. 雙重否定句 Shelley, Love’s Philosophy
4. 分詞形容詞 Yeats, When You Are Old
5. 被動句 Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Trees
6. 對等連接詞 Zoe Akins, I Am The Wind
7. 插入語 Edwin Arnold, Destiny
8. 感官動詞 William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
9. 關係代名詞they who / people who Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent Lover
10. 假設語氣 Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
11. 所有格代名詞 Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto V. Stanza 13
12. 連接詞Emily Dickinson, That I Did Always Love
13. 不定詞片語 Walt Whitman, Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
14. 動詞片語 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Reason For Love’s Blindness
15. 複合形容詞 Robert Browning, Meeting at Night
16. 倒裝句 William Shakespeare, That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold (Sonnet 73)
17. compare to / with William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18)
18. somewhere Richard Le Gallienne, Song: ‘She’s somewhere in the sunlight strong’
19. so… that… / too… to… Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Arrow and the Song
20. apart from Spike Milligan, Have A Nice Day
Part 2 愛的恐懼與不安
1. 從屬子句 Claude McKay, If We Must Die
2. 介系詞in spite of Sara Teasdale, Alone
3. 祈使句 Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
4. 主詞+受詞+受詞補語 Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, The Sin of Omission
5. 片語動詞be afraid of Ramon de Campoamor, Two Fears
6. 不定詞作形容詞用 Charles Dickens, Lucy’s Song in The Village Coquettes
7. 不定代名詞 Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man
8. be filled with / be full of Paul Laurence Dunbar, A Golden Day
9. be動詞+形容詞+of James Russell Lowell, The Fountain
10. think / consider Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
11. be aware of T. S. Eliot, Hysteria
12. doubt Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
13. in fear of / for fear that Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
14. dare Robert Herrick, To Electra
15. as much as Henry Alford, You And I
16. gaze、stare、gape、glare Heinrich Heine, When I Gaze into Your Eyes
17. neither… nor… Edward Thomas, Rain
Part 3 沒有你的日子:思念
1. 形容詞子句 Conrad Aiken, Music I Heard
2. 複合關係代名詞 Billy Collins, Forgetfulness
3. 動名詞的功能 Khalil Gibran, On Pain
4. 並列句 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude
5. 虛主詞 it D. H. Lawrence, Piano
6. no time to+動詞 William Henry Davies, Leisure
7. it is evident that… Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
8. a crowd of / a host of William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
9. what on earth / why on earth Emily Brontë, A Little While
10. never… without / never… but Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
11. at the end Ernest Dowson, April Love
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
英國浪漫時期主要詩人之一拜倫(Lord Byron)在 1814 年寫下一首為後世所津津樂道的詩,即《她走在美中》(She Walks in Beauty),其中知名的詩句有:She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark
and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes(參考翻譯:她走在美中,彷彿夜晚/無雲的蒼穹與滿天星星/暗黑與光明之最精華部/交匯在她的外貌與眼眸)。詩中反覆出現的 o’er 就是over。