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Sonnet 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 dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.

(1609)

课文讲解:
temperate: 温和、柔和。
lease: 租赁期。此处指夏天延续的时间。
decline: 衰败、衰落;变得不那么美丽。
Nor shall death brag thou wand\'rest in his shade: 死亡也无法夸口,无法把你纳入自己的阴影之下。
When in eternal lines to time thou growest: 当你使自己溶入了永恒的时间。

另外一份具体诗文讲解见: 莎士比亚最有名的诗:十四行诗第18首/the most famous poem by William Shakespeare