What is your substance, where of are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
翻譯：
試問你的肌體，是個什麼構造，
居然有百萬崇拜者，把你追尋？
每件物體，都只有固定的形象，
你卻能以任何狀態，隨意曲伸；
阿多尼斯的畫像，若與你相比，
也不過是件，模仿拙劣的贗品；
在海倫臉上竭盡，美容的藝術，
只能是你，希臘裝束的新替身；
春天你把，美麗絕倫風光展現，
秋季又慷慨賦予，用果實示人；
你就像那幸運之神，無所不在，
讓我們感受，你的仁澤和慈恩；
儘管全世界精華，都有你的份；
你卻始終保持著，一顆平常心。
推薦理由：這首十四行情詩精選（五十三）是莎士比亞筆下的Sonnet53《靈感》，如果你是莎翁的忠實讀者怎能錯過呢？
