按：我幾年前對英詩興趣略大，也讀一些詩詞，也嘗試自己寫，滿意的不多，作為習作，總是有益的。回頭看看，覺得有趣和發噱。請給與積極的批評，而不是惡意的攻擊為盼。
Her name, like my shadow, is part of me,
One day I wrote her name upon the beach,
but came the waves and washed it away,
again I wrote it with a second hand,
but came the tide, and made my pains his pray.
"Vain man", said she, " that doest in vain assay,
a mortal thing to immortalize,
for I myself shall decay like to this,
and also my name be wiped likewise,
"no so," said I , "let baser things devise,
to die in dust, but you shall live by fame,
my verse your virtues rare shall externalize,
and in the heaves write your glorious name.
Whereas death shall all the world subdue,
our love shall live, and later life renew.
