I built myself a house of glass:
It took me years to make it:
And I was proud. But now, alas!
Would God someone would break it.


"I Built Myself a House of Glass", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 215.

Edward Thomas Quotes

I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it.

I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it.

I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it.

I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it.