歌词与中文翻译
Those hours that with gentle work did frame
一刻刻时辰，曾用温柔的细工
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
造就了这众目所归的美颜，
Will play the tyrants to the very same
也会对它施暴虐于某一天，
And that unfair which fairy doth excel;
使美的不再美，只让它一度杰出；
For never-resting Time leads summer on
周流不息的时间将夏天带到了
To hodeous winter and confounds him there
可憎的冬天，就随手把他倾覆；
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
令霜凝树脂，叫茂叶枯卷，
Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere.
使雪掩美色，呈万里荒原。
Then, were not summer's distillation left
那时候若没有把夏天的香精
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
提炼成玻璃瓶中的液体囚犯，
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
美的果实亦将随美而消陨，
Nor it nor no rememberacne what it was.
没有美，也不能纪念美的灵魂。
But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,
但提炼过的花，纵使遇到冬天，
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
只失掉颜色，却永远吐露清芬。