全詩如下：

SONNET 10

For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lovest is most evident;
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate
That '

迄今，本博客已經發表了閱讀莎士比亞十四行詩的第一首到第九首的筆記。

這些博文的結構都一樣：一、全詩原文；二、分節分析和釋義；三、全詩漢譯。

在第九首登出來後，有讀者要求：“解釋一下含義”。我的理解就是：講些啥？或，有什麼主題？

莎士比亞十四行詩寫作於四百多年

讀余嘉錫箋疏的《世說新語》，讀到這一條：

謝公因子弟集聚，問毛詩何句最佳？遏稱曰：「昔我往矣，楊柳依依；今我來思，雨雪霏霏。」公曰：「吁謨定命，遠猷辰告。」謂此句偏有雅人深致。

我用白話文翻譯一下：

謝安在家人子弟聚會的時候問大家：《詩經》中哪一句最好？謝

詩歌原文如下：

SONNET 9

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
That thou consumest thyself in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form

全文如下：

SONNET 8

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well

全文如下：

SONNET 7

Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth

聖誕節前買了一本Songs of Innocence and of Experience（《天真與經驗之歌》，首版於1794年），其作者是William Blake （1757-1827），英國詩人、畫家。

這不是我的第一本William Blake詩集。

多年前我買的The Selected Poems of William Blake（《 威廉·布雷克詩選》）

全文如下：

SONNET 6

Then let not Winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happ

原文如下：

SONNET 5

Those Hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting Time leads Summer on
To hideous Winter and confoun

全文如下：

SONNET 4

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend,
And being frank, she lends to those are free.
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous la