Why is my verse so barren of new pride,　　So far from variation or quick change?

　　Why with the time do I not glance aside　　To new-found methods and to compounds strange?

　　Why write I still all one, ever the same,　　And keep invention in a noted weed,　　That every word doth almost tell my name,　　Showing their birth and where they did proceed?

　　O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,　　And you and love are still my argument;　　So all my best is dressing old words new,　　Spending again what is already spent:　　For as the sun is daily new and old,　　So is my love still telling what is told.

　　为什么我的诗那么缺新光彩，　　赶不上现代善变多姿的风尚?

　　为什么我不学时人旁征博采　　那竞奇斗艳，穷妍极巧的新腔?

　　为什么我写的始终别无二致，　　寓情思旨趣于一些老调陈言，　　几乎每一句都说出我的名字，　　透露它们的身世，它们的来源?

　　哦，须知道，我爱呵，我只把你描，　　你和爱情就是我唯一的主题;　　推陈出新是我的无上的诀窍，　　我把开支过的，不断重新开支：　　因为，正如太阳天天新天天旧，　　我的爱把说过的事絮絮不休。

【Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 76查看网站：[db:时间]】