Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
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 ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.
十四行詩之十八
（莎士比亞）
是否把你比作夏季的美？
可你比夏季更溫和可愛：
狂風會吹落五月的花蕾，
夏季賃期太短結束太快，
天眼的光焰有時會太強，
金面孔上常有陰雲出現：
一切美好事物難免消亡，
或因偶然，或因自然變遷；
但你的長夏將永不消逝，
你的美也將會永遠存在：
當你進入與時共存的詩，
死神難誇口，陰影難覆蓋：
只要人能呼吸，眼能看見，
這詩行就會讓你生命重現。