Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?            我愿将你与夏日比拟，

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:            可你比它更温和秀丽。

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,       狂风使五月靓蕾颤栗，

And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:      夏期太短促匆匆分离。

Sometime too hot the eye of he**en shines,          有时骄阳纵晒施暴戾，

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;            但他的金颜常被遮蔽。

­And every fair from fair sometime declines,         尤物有时会芳艳遁迹，

By chance or nature‘s changing course untrimmed;   偶然或被天道所排挤。

­But thy eternal summer shall not fade               但你的恒夏不会消匿，

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;        如果你永生在这诗里。

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,  你的娇美永远属于你，

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:         你将超越死神的阴厉。

­So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,        只要人有呼吸眼能看，

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.    这诗将与你生息恒绵。

­By William Shakespeare                         东海仙子译