StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet CXLVI") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", ". . . these rebel powers that thee array ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why so large cost, having so short a lease, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let that pine to aggravate thy store;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within be fed, without be rich no more: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>