Sonnet 116

By William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no! it is an ever-fix`ed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand’ring bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his heighth be taken.

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

第一百一十六首

莎士比亞

莫讓我向真摯心靈的結合

承認障礙。愛不是愛

若是遇有變節的機會就改變，

或是被強勢剝離就屈服：

哦，那不是愛!愛是堅定的烽火，

凝視著狂濤而不動搖;

愛是向導迷航船只的明星，

高度可測，實價無量。

愛不受時光影響，即使紅唇粉頰

終會被歲月的鐮刀砍伐;

愛不隨分分秒秒、日日月月改變，

愛不畏時間磨煉，直到末日盡頭。

如果有人可證明我所解不實，

我從未寫過，而無人曾真愛過。

About the poet:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.