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 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.

我能否把你比作夏季的一天？
你可是更加可愛，更加溫婉；
狂風會吃落五月的嬌花嫩瓣，
夏季出租的日期由未免太短；
有時候蒼天的巨眼照得太灼熱，
他金光閃耀的聖顔也會被遮暗；
每一樣美呀，總會失去沒而凋落，
被時機或者自然的代謝所摧殘；
但是你永久的夏天絕不會凋枯，
你永遠不會喪失你美的形象；
死神誇不着你在他影子裡踯躅，
你将在不朽的詩中與時間同長，
隻要人類在呼吸，眼睛看得見，
我這詩就活着，是你的生命綿延。