十四行诗（46）  

我的眼睛与心灵正在拼命争斗，
以决定如何瓜分所俘获的尊颜；
眼睛要阻止心把你的肖像取走，
而心灵欲剥夺眼对你的探访权。
心灵申诉说你在它的深处幽居，
那是个明眼从不去偷看的密处;
可被告否认此申诉要求的权利，
并说你的玉颜是在它那里居住。
为裁定这归属权只好召集陪审，
参加陪审的思想全是心的房客，
它们经过评议终于做出了决定，
划分了明眸和柔心各自的份额，
裁决如下：你的外貌归我眼睛，
而我的心有权拥有你内心的情。

作者 / [英国]威廉·莎士比亚
翻译 / 曹明伦

Sonnet 46 

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To ‘cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye’s moiety and the dear heart’s part:
As thus; mine eye’s due is thy outward part,
And my heart’s right thy inward love of heart.

William Shakespeare