1. 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 splendour on my brow, But out alack, he was but one hour mine, The region cloud hath masked him from me now.
多少次我曾看见灿烂的朝阳用他那至尊的眼媚悦着山顶，金色的脸庞吻着青碧的草场，把黯淡的溪水镀成一片黄金：然后蓦地任那最卑贱的云彩带着黑影驰过他神圣的霁颜，把他从这凄凉的世界藏起来，偷移向西方去掩埋他的污点；同样，我的太阳曾在一个清朝带着辉煌的光华临照我前额；但是唉！他只一刻是我的荣耀，下界的乌云已把他和我遮隔。