 | Robert Browning - English literature - 2007 - 333 pages
...Soul (1. 41) alludes to Shakespeare's Sonnet 146: "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, . . . Why so large cost, having so short a lease, / Dost...worms, inheritors of this excess, / Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?" 47-48] cedar . . . hyssop Cedars from Lebanon often symbolize strength in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...vida: «mas no a ti». POOR soul, the centre ofmy sinful earth, [ ] these rebel powers that thee array; Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting...thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors ofthis excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,... | |
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from hate away she threw, And saved my life, saying—" not you." Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so... 
