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.
Classic poem
I Built Myself a House of Glass
Public domain/Source
Read a new poem every day.
Poem A Day turns classic poetry into a quiet daily ritual, with saved poems and a calm reader built for returning.