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 ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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 ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
简体中文译文
十四行诗第十八首：我可否把你比作夏日？
我可否把你比作一个夏日？
你比它更可爱，也更加温和：
狂风会摇撼五月钟爱的花蕾，
夏日的租期又总是短得太多；
天之眼有时照得过分炽烈，
它金色的面容也常被遮暗；
一切美好终会从美好中衰减，
或因偶然，或因无从修整的自然流变；
但你永恒的夏天不会凋残，
也不会失去你所拥有的美；
死神也休想夸口说你在他阴影里徘徊，
当你在不朽诗行中与时间一同生长：
只要人还能呼吸，眼睛还能看见，
这诗便长存，并以此赋予你生命。