And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days
And do so, love; yet when they have devised
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.
我承認(rèn)你并沒有和我的詩神
結(jié)同心,因而可以絲毫無愧恧
去俯覽那些把你作主題的詩人
對(duì)你的贊美,褒獎(jiǎng)著每本詩集。
你的智慧和姿色都一樣出眾,
又發(fā)覺你的價(jià)值比我的贊美高,
因而你不得不到別處去追蹤
這邁進(jìn)時(shí)代的更生動(dòng)的寫照。
就這么辦,愛呵,但當(dāng)他們既已
使盡了浮夸的辭藻把你刻劃,
真美的你只能由真誠的知己
用真樸的話把你真實(shí)地表達(dá);
他們的濃脂粉只配拿去染紅
貧血的臉頰;對(duì)于你卻是濫用。