【我能否把你比作盛夏？莎翁第18手14行詩賞翻】

我能否把你比作盛夏？

   越美越款

風促五月蕾，日出夏結短；

偶視眩陽目，金容時為暗。

看似風和麗，萬物常變易。

然夏恆久遠，系因君美戚。

書為汝呼吸，詩若人眼力。

若命為此續，死神亦無懼。

William Shakespeare   Sonnet XVIII 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 

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 dimmed; 

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owe’st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st:

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee