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？
你可是更加可爱，更加温婉；
狂风会吃落五月的娇花嫩瓣，
夏季出租的日期由未免太短；
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热，
他金光闪耀的圣颜也会被遮暗；
每一样美呀，总会失去没而凋落，
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残；
但是你永久的夏天绝不会凋枯，
你永远不会丧失你美的形象；
死神夸不着你在他影子里踯躅，
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同长，
只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见，
我这诗就活着，是你的生命绵延。