Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

How to divide the conquest of thy sight;

Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,

My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.

My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--

A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--

But the defendant doth that plea deny

And says in him thy fair appearance lies.

To 'cide this title is impanneled

A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,

And by their verdict is determined

The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:

As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,

And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.

我的眼和我的心在作殊死戰(zhàn)，

怎樣去把你姣好的容貌分贓；

眼兒要把心和你的形象隔斷，

心兒又不甘愿把這權(quán)利相讓。

心兒聲稱你在它的深處潛隱，

從沒有明眸闖得進它的寶箱；

被告卻把這申辯堅決地否認，

說是你的倩影在它里面珍藏。

為解決這懸案就不得不邀請

我心里所有的住戶--思想--協(xié)商；

它們的共同的判詞終于決定

明眸和親摯的心應(yīng)得的分量

　　如下：你的儀表屬于我的眼睛，

　　而我的心占有你心里的愛情。