Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 19

　　Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

　　And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;

　　Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,

　　And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;

　　Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,

　　And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,

　　To the wide world and all her fading sweets;

　　But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:

　　O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,

　　Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;

　　Him in thy course untainted do allow

　　For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.

　　Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,

　　My love shall in my verse ever live young.

　　饕餮的時光，去磨鈍雄獅的爪，

　　命大地吞噬自己寵愛的幼嬰，

　　去猛虎的顎下把它利牙拔掉，

　　焚毀長壽的鳳凰，滅絕它的種，

　　使季節(jié)在你飛逝時或悲或喜;

　　而且，捷足的時光，盡肆意地摧殘

　　這大千世界和它易謝的芳菲;

　　只有這極惡大罪我禁止你犯：

　　哦，別把歲月刻在我愛的額上，

　　或用古老的鐵筆亂畫下皺紋：

　　在你的飛逝里不要把它弄臟，

　　好留給后世永作美麗的典型。

　　但，盡管猖狂，老時光，憑你多狠，

　　我的愛在我詩里將萬古長青。