Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 146 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 146 |
1 Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, 2 [....] these rebel powers that thee array; 3 Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, 4 Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? 5 Why so large cost, having so short a lease, 6 Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? 7 Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, 8 Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end? 9 Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, 10 And let that pine to aggravate thy store; 11 Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; 12 Within be fed, without be rich no more: 13 So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, 14 And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. |
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