莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 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.                                          梁宗岱 譯                              莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首                              我怎麽能夠把你來比作夏天？                              你不獨比它可愛也比它溫婉：                              狂風把五月寵愛的嫩蕊作踐，                              夏天出賃的期限又未免太短：                              天上的眼睛有時照得太酷烈，                              它那炳耀的金顏又常遭掩蔽：                              被機緣或無常的天道所摧折，                              沒有芳豔不終於雕殘或銷毀。                              但是你的長夏永遠不會雕落，                              也不會損失你這皎潔的紅芳，                              或死神誇口你在他影裏漂泊，                              當你在不朽的詩裏與時同長。                              隻要一天有人類，或人有眼睛，                              這詩將長存，並且賜給你生命。