Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 54

　　By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

　　The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem

　　For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

　　The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye

　　As the perfumed tincture of the roses,

　　Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly

　　When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:

　　But, for their virtue only is their show,

　　They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,

　　Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;

　　Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:

　　And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,

　　When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

　　哦，美看起來要更美得多少倍，

　　若再有真加給它溫馨的裝潢!

　　玫瑰花很美，但我們覺得它更美，

　　因?yàn)樗鲁鲆豢|甜蜜的芳香。

　　野薔薇的姿色也是同樣旖旎，

　　比起玫瑰的芳馥四溢的姣顏，

　　同掛在樹上，同樣會(huì)搔首弄姿，

　　當(dāng)夏天呼息使它的嫩蕊輕展：

　　但它們唯一的美德只在色相，

　　開時(shí)無人眷戀，萎謝也無人理;

　　寂寞地死去。香的玫瑰卻兩樣;

　　她那溫馨的死可以釀成香液：

　　你也如此，美麗而可愛的青春，

　　當(dāng)韶華雕謝，詩提取你的純精。