Sonnet No. 18

原文

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.

現代英譯

Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
You are more lovely and more delightful:
Rough winds shake the much loved buds of May
And summer is far too short:
At times the sun is too hot,
Or often goes behind the clouds;
And everything that is beautiful will lose its beauty,
By chance or by nature's planned out course;
But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor will death claim you for his own,
Because in my eternal verse you will live forever:
So long as there are people on this earth,
So long will this poem live on, giving you immortality.

中譯

我該把你比擬做夏天嗎？
你比夏天更可愛，更溫婉：
狂風會把五月的嬌蕊吹落，
夏天出租的期限又太短暫：
有時天上的眼睛照得太熱，
他金色的面容常常變陰暗；
一切美的事物總不免凋敗，
被機緣或自然的代謝摧殘：
但你永恆的夏天不會褪色，
不會失去你所擁有的美善，
死神也不能誇說你在他陰影裡徘徊，
當你在永恆的詩行裡與時間同久長：
只要人們能呼吸或眼睛看得清，
此詩將永存，並且賜給你生命。