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" CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text of J ... - Page 437
by William Shakespeare - 1844
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The Sonnets: Poems of Love

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 172 pages
...saying, "not you." -4146)* toor soul, the center of my sinful earth, My sinful earth these rebel pow'rs that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer...of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: iVLy love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which...
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Bi-cultural Critical Essays on Shakespeare

Joo-Hyon Kim - Comparative literature - 1994 - 142 pages
...shall "see Him as He is"23) Sonnet CXLVI Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within...on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. (A quotation from Ellis' interpretation) He (Shakespeare) reflects that...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With an Introduction and ...

William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...rebel powers array Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so cosdy gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost...on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. 147 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, 10 And let that pine to aggravate thy store. Buy terms...on death, that feeds on men, And death once dead, there's no more dying then. 146 5 reason - sanity, ability to think clearly. 5 physician to my love...
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servants loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy...on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. One could make a compelling argument that this sonnet, recalling the body-soul...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...disposed to sweep under the nig. Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth . . . these rebel pow'rs that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer...on death, that feeds on men. And death once dead, there's no more dying then. Far from suggesting that there is a morality separate from prudence, this...
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The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 312 pages
...the sonnet beautifully communicates the poet's sense of the accumulated waste of his different loves: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead there's no more dying then." The poet's address to his soul claims that the negative experience of...
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The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 308 pages
...poet's sense of the accumulated waste of his different loves: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servants loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy...feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead there's no more dying then." The poet's address to his soul claims that the negative experience of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...reversing typical siege tactics, urging the besieged soul to starve the body in order to banquet itself: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more. (9-12) Outward fasting is inward feasting.6 This moralized anorexia, familiar from medieval mystical...
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Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide

Astrid Fitzgerald - Spiritual life - 2001 - 390 pages
...midnight, entering my slumber-chamber, For thee they sing and dance O soul. —Walt Whitman FoolM by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within...on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. — William Shakespeare I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not...
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