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 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.
我能否把你比作夏季的一天?
你可是更加可爱，更加温婉;
狂风会吃落五月的娇花嫩瓣，
夏季出租的日期由未免太短;
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热，
他金光闪耀的圣颜也会被遮暗;
每一样美呀，总会失去没而凋落，
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残;
但是你永久的夏天绝不会凋枯，
你永远不会丧失你美的形象;
死神夸不着你在他影子里踯躅，
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同长，
只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见，
我这诗就活着，是你的生命绵延。