Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe,to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl,makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world,or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due,by the grave and thee.
一
天生之尤物应多多繁衍,
以使美丽的玫瑰永不凋残。
盛开的花终有凋零的日子,
而他的后嗣可以将其记忆延续:
可是你啊,只专注于自己明亮的眼睛,
宁肯用自己做燃料也要喂饱眼中的欲焰,
与自己为敌,你把丰饶的田野变成荒原。
对待娇弱的自己,你是那么残忍。
你是天地间一朵清丽的奇葩,
你是锦绣春色里唯一的使者,
却为何要把精华埋葬在自己的嫩蕊中?
娇柔的悭吝人啊,越是算计,则浪费越多。
怜惜这个世界吧!要不然,贪婪的人儿,
你和墓冢,将成为吞噬世间报偿的鱼腹。
Sonnet 2
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter’d weed of small worth held:
Then being asked where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treature of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer this fair child of mine
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
二
四十个严冬威逼你的容颜,
将你明媚的园圃刻上深深的沟坎。
你青春骄人的华装,此刻吸引着多少人的目光,
有朝一日,它飘零为败絮,又有谁肯来观看:
到时若有人问起,你的美貌去了何方,
青春韶华的瑰宝又在何处?
你说,在我深陷的眼眶里,
是贪婪的羞耻和对挥霍的颂扬。
善用你的美,你会配得上更多的赞赏,
假若你的回答能够这样:“我这美丽的孩子,
他将是我一生的总结,请宽恕我的老迈。”
证实他的美貌,也证实你的美貌在同一个血统里流传!
这就如同垂老的暮年获得了新生,
又好似冷却了的血液回复了温暖。