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 dimmed;
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 owes;
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.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
我怎样能把你比做夏日？
你比它更加可爱而温婉：
疾风无情击打五月娇蕊，
夏季的租期如昙花一现。
有时天庭之眼照耀炽烈，
往往它的金光转为阴暗；
一切美好不免凋零消谢，
听凭机缘或时序的摧残。
唯君永恒之夏永不凋零，
君之花容青春永驻长存；
死神难夸你徘徊其阴影，
因你定格在永恒的诗文。
但凡世间存气息鉴文采，
此诗长存君亦与之同在。
（译：邱锦荣，台湾莎士比亚学会）