The Mind
Spirit's House
From Love Songs
The Mind
From naked stones of agony
I will build a house for me;
As a mason all alone
I will raise it, stone by stone,
And every stone where I have bled
Will show a sign of dusky red.
I have not gone the way in vain,
For I have good of all my pain;
My spirit's quiet house will be
Built of naked stones I trod
On roads where I lost sight of God.
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MLA
Teasdale, Sara. “Spirit's House.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/113/.
Chicago
Teasdale, Sara. “Spirit's House.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/113/.
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