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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

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Sonnet XXXVIII. Who lives enthralled to Cupid and his flame

Thomas Lodge (1558–1625)

WHO lives enthralled to Cupid and his flame,

From day to day is changed in sundry sort;

The proof whereof myself may well report,

Who oft transformed by him may teach the same.

I first was turned into a wounded hart,

That bare the bloody arrow in my side;

Then to a swan that midst the waters glide,

With piteous voice presaged my deadly smart;

Eftsoons I waxed a faint and fading flower;

Then was I made a fountain sudden dry,

Distilling all my tears from troubled eye;

Now am I salamander by his power,

Living in flames, but hope ere long to be

A voice, to talk my mistress’ majesty.