叶嘉莹先生一生从事中国古典诗词的教研，擅长以深入浅出的文字，把当代西方文学概念融汇、应用于中国古典诗词的探讨和诠释，以直悟配合精析，见解独到，卓然成家。除了研究诗词，叶先生也自己创作诗词。《独陪明月看荷花叶嘉莹诗词选译》即是从叶先生历年所作诗词中选取六十余首，由陶永强译成英文，谢琰配以诗词相应的书法作品，结集出版。
细读《独陪明月看荷花叶嘉莹诗词选译》中的作品，可以体会叶先生坚毅不拔的精神，从中可见其顿悟人生种种的困苦，终能升华自我，予人的启迪无穷。
叶先生生日的时候谈到自己的一生时说：以无生的觉悟做有生的事业，以悲观的心情过乐观的生活。在近一个世纪的岁月中，虽然历经种种苦难，但先生对理想的追求，对未来生活的想往，对中国古典诗歌和传统文化的至爱，始终如一，从未有半点改变。诵读先生的诗作，我们不仅领略到作品的柔婉与至情至性，而且深切感受到先生内心的坚定、光明与大爱。
本书由译者陶永强先生选篇，选取了叶嘉莹先生从少年时期到耄耋之年的诗词曲作品六十余首，译成英文，并由书法家谢琰先生以行书抄录诗作，为本书增色。
随书附赠三鼠同心藏书票，作为同为鼠年出生的作者、译者和书者的友谊见证。
叶嘉莹，南开大学中华古典文化研究所所长，博士生导师，加拿大籍中国古典文学专家，加拿大皇家学会院士，曾任台湾大学教授，美国哈佛大学、密歇根大学及哥伦比亚大学客座教授，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学终身教授，并受聘于国内多所大学客座教授及中国社会科学院文学所名誉研究员。
1 咏莲To the Lotus
2 咏菊To the Chrysanthemum
3 高中毕业聚餐会后口占Composed Extempore After the Senior High School Graduation Dinner
4 三字令To o the Tune of Three Word Lines
5 母亡后接父书Receiving a Letter from Father After Mother Died
6 如梦令残柳Weathered Willow To the Tune of Dreamy Melody
7 落梅风To the Tune of Plum Petals Fly
8 折窗前雪竹寄嘉富姊To Jiafu: Leaves Plucked from the Snow-capped Bamboo by the Window
9 生涯Destiny
10 秋宵听雨Listening to the Rain One Autumn Night
11 正宫端正好套曲Me at Twenty A Set of Songs to the Major Tone-pattern of Proper and Good
12 醉太平To the Tune of Drunken Good Times
13 晚秋杂诗 五首选一Late Fall 1 of 5
14 采桑子To o the Tune of The Mulberry Picker
15 转蓬Blown Thistle
16 蝶恋花To the Tune of Butterflies Love Flowers
17 郊游野柳偶成四绝 选一Quatrain on a Trip to Yeh-liu 1 of 4
18 海云Sea Clouds
19-20 读庄子逍遥游偶成二绝Two Poems in Response to Zhuangzis The Great Journey
21 菩萨蛮To the Tune of Wild Beauty
22 水云谣Song of the Water and Clouds
23 异国Alien Land
24 鹏飞Falcons Flight
25 父殁Father Died
26 庭前烟树为雪所压持竿击去树上积雪以救折枝口占绝句Tree Laden with Snow (Composed Extempore)
27 梦中得句杂用义山诗足成绝句Lines that Came in a Dream: Derived from Li Shangyins Poems
28 发留过长剪而短之又病其零乱不整因梳为髻或见而讶之戏赋此诗My Hair Was Too Long 73
29-32 一九七六年三月廿四日长女言言与婿永廷以车祸同时罹难日日哭之陆续成诗十首 选四Poems Written in Tears 4 of 10
33-34 雾中有作 七绝二首In the Mist: Two Quatrains
35-36 向晚二首At Dusk: Two Quatrains
37 水龙吟秋日感怀Reflections on an Autumn Day To o the Tune of Water Dragon Song
38 临江仙To the Tune of River Nymph
39 赠故都师友For My Teachers and Friends at the Ancient Capital
40 水调歌头题友人国殇图Inscription for a Friends Drawing of a Fallen Hero To the Tune of Water Song
41 水龙吟题嵇康鼓琴图The Painting of Ji Kang Playing a Qin To the Tune of Water Dragon Song
42 鹊踏枝To the Tune of Magpie on a Perch
43 一九八一年春自温哥华乘机赴草堂参加杜诗学会机上口占Composed Extempore on the Flight to China from Vancouver in the Springof 1981 to Attend a Conference of the Du Fu Poetry Society
44 鹧鸪天To the Tune of Partridge Sky
45 蝶恋花To The Tune of Butterflies Love Flowers
46 浣溪沙To the Tune of Sands of the Washing Stream
47 木兰花慢咏荷Ode to the Lotus To the Tune of Magnolia Blossoms Adagio
48 《灵谿词说》书成，口占一绝Composed Extempore upon Completion of My Book on Ci-poetry
49 瑶华To o the Tune of Flower Most Pure
50 纪梦A Dream
51 金晖Golden Rays
52 鹧鸪天To the Tune of Partridge Sky
53 鹧鸪天To the Tune of Partridge Sky
54 浣溪沙为南开马蹄湖荷花作To the Lotus of the Horseshoe Lake at Nankai
55-56 妥芬诺度假纪事绝句 十首选二On a Trip to Tofino 2 of Ten Quatrains
57 随席慕蓉女士至内蒙作原乡之旅口占绝句十首 之二Trip to My Ancestral Land in Inner Mongolia 2nd of 10
58 水调歌头渡假归来戏作录示同游诸友For My Travel Companions, After a Trip
59 绝句一首Quatrain
60-61 戊子仲夏感事抒怀绝句 三首选二Midsummer 2008 2 of 3
62 雪后尘霾不散，口占绝句二首 之二Lingering Smog 2nd of 2
Translators Postscript
There Was A Poem
有一首诗
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