<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539177" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little love god lying once asleep<br>Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,<br>Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep<br>Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand,<br>The fairest votary took up that fire<br>Which many legions of true hearts had warmed,<br>And so the general of hot desire<br>Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarmed.<br>This brand she quenched in a cool well by,<br>Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,<br>Growing a bath and healthful remedy,<br>For men discased; but I, my mistress' thrall,<br> Came there for cure and this by that I prove,<br> Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539177" data-title="Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep de William Shakespeare" data-description="The little love god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand, The fairest votary took up that fire Which many legions of true hearts ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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