When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me/ thus to ruminate
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
翻译：
亲眼目睹，富丽和豪华的骄傲，
竟被那时光之手，无情地盖掩；
巍峨的高塔，倾刻间沦为碎瓦，
连至尊铜像也不免，遭受劫难；
我曾见过，那欲壑难填的大海，
怎样把王国的海岸，侵蚀吞占；
也曾见过汪洋，又被陆地填满，
苍海桑田，得失只在须臾之间；
经历那些王国的，其兴也勃焉，
或者那些朝代的，其亡也忽焉；
兴废的古训，让我无限地感慨：
“永失我爱之时，终究不可避免”
象某种，无法选择的死亡理念；
再恐惧，也只能哭着与它照面。
推荐理由：这首十四行情诗精选（六十四）是莎士比亚笔下的Sonnet64《兴废》，如果你是莎翁的忠实读者怎能错过呢？
