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Sonnet 154 o The little Love-god lying once asleep è il centocinquantaquattresimo e ultimo dei Sonnets di William Shakespeare.
Il testo del sonetto in lingua originale
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd 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 had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
- Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
- Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.