莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首

(配合國語課第二課 戲劇之王-莎士比亞)

莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首

我怎麼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，
沒有芳豔不終於彫殘或銷毀。

但是你的長夏永遠不會彫落，
也不會損失你這皎潔的紅芳，
或死神誇口你在他影裡漂泊，
當你在不朽的詩裡與時同長。

只要一天有人類，或人有眼睛，
這詩將長存，並且賜給你生命。

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.