这大概是一首写给儿童的诗歌，内容很简单。在书中，我们能看到形形色色的人和事，变成自己梦想成为的人，还能看到精彩纷呈的大千世界。来，让我们打开书，读给彼此听吧！

Open A Book

By Jane Baskwill

Open a book

And you will find 

People and places of every kind 

Open a book 

And you can be 

Anything that you want to be:

Open a book 

And you can share 

Wondrous worlds you find in there 

Open a book

And I will too 

You read to me 

And I'll read to you.

如果你也学英国文学史，那么下面这首诗中的很多名字，应该都很熟悉。拜伦、雪莱、托马斯·莫里斯、华兹华斯、布朗宁、弥尔顿、丁尼生、马修·阿诺德、莎士比亚……哪个不是响当当的大文学家。作者的书架上放满了这些作家和诗人们的作品，卑微如我，不知道今晚该挖掘哪块宝藏。

An Alternative

By John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)

There's Byron on my shelf, and Shelley too;

      There's dear old Doctor Holmes, and Thomas Moore,

      With Wordsworth just below him, bound in blue,

      And Browning's works stand over by the door.

There's Milton, Scott, Macaulay's Lays of Rome;

      There's Tennyson and Matthew Arnold terse;

      Longfellow, Shakespeare, and Rossetti's tome;

      The odes of Horace and blest Omar's verse.

So vast these riches are in my poor eyes,

      I can't decide which poet on my shelf

      I'll read to-night, and so I'll compromise

      And read these "Rhymes" in full calf by myself.

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