翻譯詩 --- 威廉·莎士比亞『第十八首十四行詩』

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.

我怎能將汝比擬夏日？

汝較之可愛也更溫和：

狂風摧殘五月的愛蕊，

且夏季賃期太過短促：

陽光時而閃耀的過烈，

那輝爍金顏常遭掩隱；

而美中之菁終將色弛，

受機緣或變天道摧折；

然汝之永夏經久不凋，

亦不減損汝有之芳美，

死亦不諞汝寓其影羇，

當詩恆存汝與時俱長：

惟人能呼息或目可視，

此詩長存，並賦汝以生命。