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SONGS OUT OF SORROW: SPIRIT'S HOUSE by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: FROM NAKED STONES OF AGONY
Last Line: On roads where I lost sight of God
Subject(s): GRIEF; RELIGION; SORROW; SADNESS; THEOLOGY;

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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