Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
By William Shakespeare
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
莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首
• 梁实秋 译
我可能把你和夏天相比拟?
你比夏天更可爱更温和：
狂风会把五月的花苞吹落地，
夏天也嫌太短促，匆匆而过：
有时太阳照得太热，
常常又遮暗他的金色的脸;
美的事物总不免要凋落，
偶然的，或是随自然变化而流转。
但是你的永恒之夏不会褪色;
你不会失去你的俊美的仪容;
死神不能夸说你在他的阴影里面走着，
如果你在这不朽的诗句里获得了永生;
只要人们能呼吸，眼睛能看东西，
此诗就会不朽，使你永久生存下去。