Sonnet 18

十四行诗第18首

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

你不独比它可爱也比它温婉：

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践，

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

夏天出赁的期限又未免太短：

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

天上的眼睛有时照得太酷烈，

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

它那耀的金颜又常遭掩蔽：

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

被机缘或无常的天道所摧折，

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

没有芳艳不终于凋残或销毁。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

但是你的长夏永远不会凋落，

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

也不会损失你这皎洁的红芳，

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

或死神夸口你在他影里漂泊，

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

当你在不朽的诗里与时同长。

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

只要一天有人类，或人有眼睛，

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

这诗将长存，并且赐给你生命。

注：梁宗岱/译