I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make i… - Edward Thomas

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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.

Edward Thomas

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Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was an English poet, critical biographer and topographical writer. Some of his poems were published under the name Edward Eastaway.

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Alternative Names: Edward Eastaway • Philip Edward Thomas

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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers—as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

The simple lack
Of her is more to me
Than others' presence.

As well as any bloom upon a flower
I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

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. - Edward Thomas

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