譯文｜|莎士比亞十四行詩拉丁語版本

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XVIII

An similem aestivae pingam te, care, diei?

Haud ita fit constans, haud ita pulchra dies.

Flabra novas agitant, Maio sua gaudia, frondes,

Ac brevis aestivam continet hora moram.

Sol, oculus caeli, nimiis fervoribus ardet

Interdum, aut hebes est aureus ille color;

Pulchraque declinant a pulchro, forte caduca,

Aut quia naturae lex ita flectit iter.

At tibi perpetua est, indeclinabilis, aestas,

Deciderit a flos tuus iste die;

Mors nihil ipsa suis de te iactabit in umbris

Carmine in aeterno dum sine fine vires;

Donec homo spirabit enim poteritque videre,

Vivit in hoc vitae carmine causa tuae.

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.

第十八首

我怎麼能夠把你來比作夏天？

你不獨比它可愛也比它溫婉：

狂風把五月寵愛的嫩蕊作踐，

夏天出賃的期限又未免太短：

天上的眼睛有時照得太酷烈，

它那炳耀的金顏又常遭掩蔽：

被機緣或無常的天道所摧折，

沒有芳艷不終於雕殘或銷毀。

但是你的長夏永遠不會雕落，

也不會損失你這皎潔的紅芳，

或死神誇口你在他影里漂泊，

當你在不朽的詩里與時同長。

只要一天有人類，或人有眼睛，

這詩將長存，並且賜給你生命。

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