我可否把你比作夏日? Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?

你比夏日更可爱更温和;Thou art more lovely and more temperate;

狂风会摇落五月钟爱的花蕾, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

夏日也太短促,匆匆而过;      And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

有时天上的太阳照得太热, Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

他那金色的面容常常被遮暗; And often is his gold complexion dimm’d

一切美的事物总不免失去其美, And every fair from fair sometime declines,

由于偶然或自然的变化而黯然; By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d.

但是你的永恒之夏不会凋谢, But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,

也不会失去你所拥有的美; Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

死神不能夸口你在他的阴影中徘徊, Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

当你在这永恒的诗行中得到永生; 　 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;

只要人们能呼吸,眼睛能看见, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

只要此诗长存, 它将使你永恒.So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

(这是献给他的情郎的,看来同志之爱很美丽.)