名人诗歌|Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 84

Who is it that says most? which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
In whose confine immured^{1 is the store
Which should example where your equal grew.
Lean penury2 within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies3 his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
You to your beauteous blessings4 add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.}

哪个说得最好？什么说得更圆满
比起这丰美的赞词：只有你是你？
这赞词蕴藏着你的全部资产，
哪个和你争妍，就需要和它比拟。
那枝文笔实在是贫瘠得可怜，
假如它不可以把题材稍事增华；
但哪个写到你，只须他可以表现
你就是你，他的故事已够伟大。
让他只照你原稿忠实地直抄，
别把造化的清爽的素描弄坏，
如此的摹本已显出他的巧妙，
使他的风格到处受大家崇拜。
你将对你美的祝福加以咒诅：
太爱人赞美，连美也变成庸俗。