莎士比亞的十四行詩(個人推薦第18、71及116首)

Sonnet No. 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 ow’st,

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

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.



十四行詩第18首

我該把你比擬做夏天嗎？

你比夏天更可愛，更溫婉：

狂風會把五月的嬌蕊吹落，

夏天出租的期限又太短暫：

有時天上的眼睛照得太熱，

他金色的面容常常變陰暗；

一切美的事物總不免凋敗，

被機緣或自然的代謝摧殘：

但你永恆的夏天不會褪色，

不會失去你所擁有的美善，

死神也不能誇說你在他陰影裡徘徊，

當你在永恆的詩行裡與時間同久長：

只要人們能呼吸或眼睛看得清，

此詩將永存，並且賜給你生命。



Sonnet No. 71

No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:

Nay, if you read this line, remember not

The hand that writ it, for I love you so,

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,

If thinking on me then should make you woe.

O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,

When I perhaps compounded am with clay,

Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;

But let your love even with my life decay;

Lest the wise world should look into your moan,

And mock you with me after I am gone.



十四行詩第71首

當我死時不要再為我悲哀，

當你聽到陰鬱沉重的鐘聲響起，

向世人通告說我已經離開

這濁世去和最穢濁的蟲蛆同棲：

不，如果你讀到此詩，不要回想

書寫它的手，因為我愛你至深，

情願被你甜蜜的思緒遺忘，

如果想起我使你悲傷頓生。

噢，我說，如果你看到這詩，

那時我或已和泥土混為一團，

請你連我可憐的名字都不要提，

就讓你的愛隨著我的生命消散；

免得精明的世人看透你傷心處，

讓你在我死後跟著我一同受辱。



Sonnet No. 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no! it is an ever-fix`ed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand’ring bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his heighth be taken.

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom: ──

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



十四行詩第116首

莫讓我向真摯心靈的結合

承認障礙。愛不是愛

若是遇有變節的機會就改變，

或是被強勢剝離就屈服：

哦，那不是愛！愛是堅定的烽火，

凝視著狂濤而不動搖；

愛是嚮導迷航船隻的明星，

高度可測，實價無量。

愛不受時光影響，即使紅唇粉頰

終會被歲月的鐮刀砍伐；

愛不隨分分秒秒、日日月月改變，

愛不畏時間磨鍊，直到末日盡頭。

如果有人可證明我所解不實，

我從未寫過，而無人曾真愛過。