《游园不值》是宋代诗人叶绍翁的名篇，这首小诗写诗人春日游园所见所感。此诗先写诗人游园看花而进不了园门，感情上是从有所期待到失望遗憾；后看到一枝红杏伸出墙外，进而领略到园中的盎然春意，感情又由失望到意外之惊喜，写得十分曲折而有层次。尤其第三、四两句，既渲染了浓郁的春色，又揭示了深刻的哲理。全诗写得十分形象而又富有理趣，体现了取景小而含意深的特点，情景交融，脍炙人口。

《游园不值》 叶绍翁

应怜屐齿印苍苔，小扣柴扉久不开。
春色满园关不住，一枝红杏出墙来。

On Visiting a Garden, When Its Master Is Absent
Ye Shaoweng

It is proper to hate the marks of shoes on the green moss;
Of ten that knock at his brushwood gate, nine cannot have it opened.
Spring's colours fill the garden but cannot all be contained,
For one spray of red almound-blossom peeps out from the wall.