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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou own;
Nor shall death brag thou wander in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
By William Shakespeare
第18首 十四行詩
能不能讓我來把妳比作夏日？
妳可是更加可愛，更加溫婉；
狂風會吹落五月裏盛開的花朵，
夏季的日子又未免太短暫；
有時候蒼天的巨眼照得太灼熱，
他那金彩的臉色也會被被遮暗；
每壹樣美呀,總會（離開美麗）雕落，
被時機或者自然的代謝所摧殘；
但是妳永久的夏天決不會雕枯，
妳永遠不會失去妳美的形象；
死神誇不著妳在他影子裏的踟躕，
妳將在不朽的詩中與時間同長；
只要人類在呼吸，眼睛看得見，
我這詩就活著，使妳的生命綿延。
（屠岸 譯）