莎士比亚十四行诗第四首

作者：十方

挥霍的浪子，为何你将

美的遗产用在己身？

上天是借而非予，

其慷慨只对慷慨之人。 4

那么，你这美丽的吝啬鬼，为何

滥用别人托你转交的厚赠？

又似放贷而无获者，为何

用尽了重币，而终不得长存？ 8

只因你在与自己交易，

宛若在迷梦中自欺。

而一旦上天召回你的生命，

这交易怎经得起审听？ 12

未曾展现的美将随葬荒茔，

你留下的美才被子孙继承。

Sonnet 4

Unthrifty loveliness,why dost thou spend

Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?

Nature's bequest gives nothing,but doth lend,

And being frank,she lends to those are free. 4

Then,beauteous niggard,why dost thou abuse

The bounteous largess given thee to give?

Profitless usurer,why dost thou use

So great a sum of sums yet canst not live? 8

For having traffic with thyself alone,

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive,

Then how when nature calls thee to be gone:

What acceptable audit canst thou leave? 12

Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,

Which used,lives th'executor to be.