Sonnet 18    

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest;

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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译者：吴穷   6/16/08

可否将你比作明媚夏日？

而你比它更添可爱温婉。

五月花瓣不禁狂风，

夏日之期即将届满：

烈日炎炎灼人之眼，

金色光彩略显暗淡，

一切美好总会逝去，

自然变迁或是无意间流转：

而你如夏日永无消减，

风姿绰约，翩翩依然，

死神的遮蔽只是他的夸口，

因你将永生于不死诗篇，

活着的人目光所及，

这诗篇便流传于世间，赐你生机无限。