Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,

Kissing with golden face the meadows green,

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride

With ugly rack on his celestial face,

And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:

Even so my sun one early morn did shine

With all triumphant splendor on my brow;

But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;

The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.

Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;

Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

多少次我曾看見燦爛的朝陽

用他那至尊的眼媚悅著山頂，

金色的臉龐吻著青碧的草場，

把黯淡的溪水鍍成一片黃金：

然后驀地任那最卑賤的云彩

帶著黑影馳過他神圣的霽顏，

把他從這凄涼的世界藏起來，

偷移向西方去掩埋他的污點；

同樣，我的太陽曾在一個清朝

帶著輝煌的光華臨照我前額；

但是唉！他只一刻是我的榮耀，

下界的烏云已把他和我遮隔。

我的愛卻并不因此把他鄙賤，

天上的太陽有瑕疵，何況人間！