莎士比亞十四行情詩精選（三）

　　by: William Shakespeare

LOOK in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Now is the time that face should form another,

Whose fresh repair if now thou renewest,

Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

For where is she so fair whose uneared womb

Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

Or who is he so fond will be the tomb

Of his self-love, to stop posterity?

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee

Calls back the lovely April of her prime;

So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,

Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.

But if thou live rememb'red not to be,

Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

翻譯：
　　照照鏡子，告訴你那鏡中的臉龐，

説現 在這龐兒應該另造一副；

如果你不趕快為它重修殿堂，

就欺騙世界，剝掉母親的幸福。

因為哪裏會有女人那麼淑貞

她那處女的胎不願被你耕種？

哪裏有男人那麼蠢，他竟甘心

做自己的墳墓，絕自己的血統？

你是你母親的鏡子，在你裏面

她喚回她的盛年的芳菲四月：

同樣，從你暮年的窗你將眺見--

縱皺紋滿臉--你這黃金的歲月。

但是你活着若不願被人惦記，

就獨自死去，你的肖像和你一起。

　　推薦理由：老實説，我現在還沒有那麼高的能力感悟到“沙翁”當時的心境，或許你會讀懂“沙翁”的這首十四行情詩呢？