Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Instruction

Hazel Hall

MY hands that guide a needle

In their turn are led

Relentlessly and deftly,

As a needle leads a thread.

Other hands are teaching

My needle; when I sew

I feel the cool, thin fingers

Of hands I do not know.

They urge my needle onward,

They smooth my seams, until

The worry of my stitches

Smothers in their skill.

All the tired women,

Who sewed their lives away,

Speak in my deft fingers

As I sew today.