這首詩是莎士比亞的《第十八首十四行詩》中英文對照：Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?我想將你比作迷人的夏日，Thou art more lovely and more temperate:但汝卻更顯可愛和溫存：Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,狂野之風摧殘著五月蓓蕾的柔媚，And summer's lease hath all too short a date:也一天天消逝著夏日的歸期：Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,蒼天的明眸偶然瀉出璀璨，And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;卻難以輝映他暗淡的容顏；And every fair from fair sometime declines,一切明媚的色彩漸已消褪，By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;過程是如此蒼白；But thy eternal summer shall not fade然而你卻如永恒之夏，Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;所有的美好永遠也不會改變；Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,就連死神也不敢對你囂張，When in eternal lines to time thou growest:因你將永生于不朽的詩篇：So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,只要世人一息尚存，So long lives this and this gives life to thee.你將和這詩篇永駐人間。-----by William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 )