Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

这首十四行诗以一种永恒与不朽为主题，诗人通过对夏日美景的描绘和对时间流逝的感慨，将心中的挚爱形象化为超越时间的存在。在诗中，“你”比夏日更可爱、更温和，即使夏日的光芒有时过于炽烈，有时又因云层而黯淡，但“你”的美丽不会随时间消逝。通过诗歌的形式，“你”的形象将被永远铭记，直到世界末日。这不仅表达了诗人对爱人的深情，也体现了艺术作品跨越时空的力量。