"I built myself a house of glass:It took……" — Edward Thomas
"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."
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Edward Thomas
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12 Quotes by Edward Thomas
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove…
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home,…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to…
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it…
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square…
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
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How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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