十四行詩 Sonnet 6

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

那麼，別讓冬天嶙峋的手抹掉
你的夏天，在你未經提煉之前：
薰香一些瓶子；把你美的財寶
藏在寶庫裏，趁它還未及消散。
這樣的借貸並不是違禁取利，
既然它使那樂意納息的高興；
這是說你該爲你另生一個你，
或者，一個生十，就十倍地幸運；
十倍你自己比你現在更快樂，
如果你有十個兒子來重現你：
這樣，即使你長辭，死將奈你何，
既然你繼續活在你的後裔裏？
別任性：你那麼標緻，何必甘心
做死的勝利品，讓蛆蟲做子孫。