From fairest creatures we desire increase,                 我愿美灵繁，

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,                玫瑰艳不减。

But as the riper should by time decease,                   成熟随令阑，

His tender heir might bear his memory.                     嫩嗣记忆传。

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,             结缘己双眼，

Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,      自为柴助焰。

Making a famine where abundance lies,                      沃土变荒田，

Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.             极度自伤残。

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,              尔为世饰鲜，

And only herald to the gaudy spring,                       花仙迷春天。

Within thine own bud buriest thy content,                  自蕾自流连，

And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.             青春隐贪婪。

Pity the world, or else this glutton be,                 贪仙此世怜，

To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.           尽份墓穴眠。

东海仙子译