Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 76

　　So far from variation or quick change?

　　Why with the time do I not glance aside

　　To new-found methods and to compounds strange?

　　Why write I still all one, ever the same,

　　And keep invention in a noted weed,

　　That every word doth almost tell my name,

　　Showing their birth and where they did proceed?

　　O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,

　　And you and love are still my argument;

　　So all my best is dressing old words new,

　　Spending again what is already spent:

　　For as the sun is daily new and old,

　　So is my love still telling what is told.

　　為什么我的詩那么缺新光彩，

　　趕不上現(xiàn)代善變多姿的風(fēng)尚?

　　為什么我不學(xué)時(shí)人旁征博采

　　那競奇斗艷，窮妍極巧的新腔?

　　為什么我寫的始終別無二致，

　　寓情思旨趣于一些老調(diào)陳言，

　　幾乎每一句都說出我的名字，

　　透露它們的身世，它們的來源?

　　哦，須知道，我愛呵，我只把你描，

　　你和愛情就是我唯一的主題;

　　推陳出新是我的無上的訣竅，

　　我把開支過的，不斷重新開支：

　　因?yàn)椋缣柼焯煨绿焯炫f，

　　我的愛把說過的事絮絮不休。