Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 5

　　The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

　　Will play the tyrants to the very same

　　And that unfair which fairly doth excel:

　　For never-resting time leads summer on

　　To hideous winter and confounds him there;

　　Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

　　Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:

　　Then, were not summer's distillation left,

　　A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

　　Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,

　　Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:

　　But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,

　　Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

　　那些時辰曾經(jīng)用輕盈的細工

　　織就這眾目共注的可愛明眸，

　　終有天對它擺出魔王的面孔，

　　把絕代佳麗剁成龍鍾的老丑：

　　因為不舍晝夜的時光把盛夏

　　帶到猙獰的冬天去把它結(jié)果;

　　生機被嚴霜窒息，綠葉又全下，

　　白雪掩埋了美，滿目是赤裸裸：

　　那時候如果夏天尚未經(jīng)提煉，

　　讓它凝成香露鎖在玻璃瓶里，

　　美和美的流澤將一起被截斷，

　　美，和美的記憶都無人再提起：

　　但提煉過的花，縱和冬天抗衡，

　　只失掉顏色，卻永遠吐著清芬。