Sonnet 18

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 dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

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

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

我能否把你比作夏季的一天?

你可是更加可爱，更加温婉;

狂风会吃落五月的娇花嫩瓣，

夏季出租的日期由未免太短;

有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热，

他金光闪耀的圣颜也会被遮暗;

每一样美呀，总会失去没而凋落，

被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残;

但是你永久的夏天绝不会凋枯，

你永远不会丧失你美的形象;

死神夸不着你在他影子里踯躅，

你将在不朽的诗中与时间同长，

只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见，

我这诗就活着，是你的生命绵延。