Fairest Nymph Steals Cupid’s Flame of Love - Works of William Shakespeare - stock illustration

The fairest of the nymphs steals Cupid’s torch, the flame of love intending to extinguish it of Sonnet 154 in Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the Works of William Shakespeare. Vintage etching circa mid 19th century. Sonnet 154, 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. -W. Shakespeare