Dont put up my Thread Needle --

Dont put up my Thread Needle --
I'll begin to Sow
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 sowing
Fetch the seam I missed --
Closer -- so I -- at my sighing[^a1]sleeping --
Still surmise I stitch --

[^a1: sighing | sighing]

17.dreaming] deeming