Two loves I have of comfort and despair,

Which like two spirits do suggest me still:

The better angel is a man right fair,

The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

To win me soon to hell, my female evil

Tempteth my better angel from my side,

And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,

Wooing his purity with her foul pride.

And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend

Suspect I may, but not directly tell;

But being both from me, both to each friend,

I guess one angel in another's hell:

Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,

Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

兩個(gè)愛(ài)人像精靈般把我誘惑，

一個(gè)叫安慰，另外一個(gè)叫絕望：

善的天使是個(gè)男子，豐姿綽約；

惡的幽靈是個(gè)女人，其貌不揚(yáng)。

為了促使我早進(jìn)地獄，那女鬼

引誘我的善精靈硬把我拋開(kāi)，

還要把他迷惑，使淪落為妖魅，

用骯臟的驕傲追求純潔的愛(ài)。

我的天使是否已變成了惡魔，

我無(wú)法一下子確定，只能猜疑；

但兩個(gè)都把我扔下，互相結(jié)合，

一個(gè)想必進(jìn)了另一個(gè)的地獄。

　　可是這一點(diǎn)我永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法猜透，

　　除非是惡的天使把善的攆走