Don’t Put Up My Thread and Needle
poem 617
Don’t Put Up My Thread and Needle - meaning Summary
Paused Work, Future Completion
The speaker asks others not to put away her sewing tools because she intends to resume work when she is ready. Sewing stands for ongoing effort, skill, and the speaker’s changing capacity: when her sight or strength is impaired she can only imagine stitching, but when restored she will produce fine, precise work. The poem mixes practical domestic imagery with a confident assertion that pauses are temporary, and that creativity or labor interrupted by fatigue or illness will be completed later, perhaps even improved by the wait.
Read Complete AnalysesDon’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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