Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

By Nancy

十四行诗第十八首：
我能否将你比作夏天？

作者：威廉.莎士比亚 译者：梁实秋

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。

Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

By William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

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.