莎翁十四行詩：比你作夏日

　　Shall I compare thee to a summers 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 grow'st:

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

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

　　第18首十四行詩

　　能不能讓我來把你比作夏日?

　　你可是更加可愛，更加溫婉;

　　狂風會吹落五月里開的好花兒，

　　夏季租出的日子又未免太短暫：

　　有時候蒼天的巨眼照得太灼熱，

　　他那金彩的臉色也會被遮暗;

　　每一樣美呀，總會離開美而凋落，

　　被時機或是自然的代謝所摧殘;

　　但是你永久的夏天決不會凋枯，

　　你永遠不會失去你美的形相：

　　死神夸不著你在他影子里躑躅，

　　你將在不朽的詩中與時間同長;

　　只要人類在呼吸，眼睛看得見，

　　我這詩就活著，使你的生命綿延。