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DON'T PUT UP MY THREAD AND NEEDLE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Still surmise I stitch
Variant Title(s): Poem: 617; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Americans; Sewing; United States




Don't put up my Thread and Needle -
I'll begin to Sew
When the Birds begin to whistle -
Better Stitches - so -


These were bent - my sight got crooked -
When my mind - is plain
I'll do seams - a Queen's endeavor
Would not blush to own -


Hems - too fine for Lady's tracing
To the sightless Knot -
Tucks - of dainty interspersion -
Like a dotted Dot -


Leave my Needle in the furrow -
Where I put it down -
I can make the zigzag stitches
Straight - when I am strong -


Till then - dreaming I am sewing
Fetch the seam I missed -
Closer - so I - at my sleeping -
Still surmise I stitch -






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