Sonnet XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day)
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.
-----by William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 )
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十四行詩 8 我想將你比作迷人的夏日
我想將你比作迷人的夏日，
但汝卻更顯可愛和溫存：
狂野之風摧殘著五月蓓蕾的柔媚，
也一天天消逝著夏日的歸期：
蒼天的明眸偶然瀉出璀璨，
卻難以輝映他暗淡的容顏；
一切明媚的色彩漸已消褪，
過程是如此蒼白；
然而你卻如永恒之夏，
所有的美好永遠也不會改變；
就連死神也不敢對你囂張，
因你將永生于不朽的詩篇：
只要世人一息尚存，
你將和這詩篇永駐人間。