Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day Sonnet No 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
我可能把你和夏天相比擬？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
你比夏天更可愛更溫和
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
狂風會把五月的花苞吹落地，
And summer's lease hath all too short a date
夏天也嫌太短促，匆匆而過：
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
有時太陽照得太熱，
And often is his gold complexion dimmed
常常又遮暗他的金色的臉；
And every fair from fair sometime declines
美的事物總不免要凋落，
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed
偶然的，或是隨自然變化而流轉。
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但是你的永恆之夏不會褪色；
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
你不會失去你的俊美的儀容；
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade
死神不能誇說你在他的陰影裡面走著，
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
如果你在這不朽的詩句裡獲得了永生；
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
只要人們能呼吸，眼睛能看東西，
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
此詩就會不朽，使你永久生存下去。