The Mind

I Built Myself a House of Glass

by Edward Thomas 1878–1917

From Collected Poems (1920)

The Mind

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.
But it looks too magnificent.
No neighbour casts a stone
From where he dwells, in tenement
Or palace of glass, alone.

MLA

Thomas, Edward. “I Built Myself a House of Glass.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thomas_e/85/.

Chicago

Thomas, Edward. “I Built Myself a House of Glass.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thomas_e/85/.

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