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.

　　(By William Shakespeare )

　　我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？

　　你不独比它可爱也比它温婉：

　　狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践，

　　夏天出赁的期限又未免太短：

　　天上的眼睛有时照得太酷烈，

　　它那炳耀的金颜又常遭掩蔽：

　　被机缘或无常的天道所摧折，

　　没有芳艳不终于雕残或销毁。

　　但是你的长夏永远不会雕落，

　　也不会损失你这皎洁的红芳，

　　或死神夸口你在他影里漂泊，

　　当你在不朽的诗里与时同长。

　　　　只要一天有人类，或人有眼睛，

　　　　这诗将长存，并且赐给你生命。