So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse - Sonnet 21
So is it not with me as with that Muse, Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse, Who heaven itself for ornament doth use, And every fair with his fair doth rehearse, Making a couplement of proud compare With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems, With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems. O let me, true in love, but truly write, And then believe me, my love is as fair As any mother's child, though not so bright As those gold candles fixed in heaven's air: Let them say more that like of hearsay well, I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
Sonnet 21 by William Shakespeare в оригинале.
Не соревнуюсь я с творцами од, Которые раскрашенным богиням В подарок преподносят небосвод Со всей землей и океаном синим. Пускай они для украшенья строф Твердят в стихах, между собою споря, О звездах неба, о венках цветов, О драгоценностях земли и моря. В любви и в слове - правда мой закон, И я пишу, что милая прекрасна, Как все, кто смертной матерью рожден, А не как солнце или месяц ясный. Я не хочу хвалить любовь мою, - Я никому ее не продаю!