Sonnet 146

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Sonnet 146 by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 146 in the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 146 continues the sequence of sonnets dedicated by Shakespeare to his “"Dark Lady”. The Fair Youth is no longer the prime subject and the woman is now central. Her identity is unknown and, as with the boy, it is a matter of academic debate as to whether she is...

Sonnet 146 Annotated

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
my sinful earth these 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 mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

Sonnet 146

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