William Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Author: William Shakespeare

Sonnet 153

Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian’s this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrow’d from this holy fire of Love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress’ eye Love’s brand new-fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distemper’d guest,
  But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
  Where Cupid got new fire—my mistress’ eyes.
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Chicago: William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 153," Literature Reference Library Preview in Original Sources, accessed October 1, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HFL6L7AGYMF4NA8.

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Harvard: Shakespeare, W, 'Sonnet 153' in Literature Reference Library Preview. cited in , . Original Sources, retrieved 1 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HFL6L7AGYMF4NA8.