Name/Title
The Thread Speaks to the LoomEntry/Object ID
JJA.1938.476Description
This is a handwritten poem by Sarah Cleghorn. The transcription is as follows:
"The Thread Speaks to The Loom"
Alas, what means this endless range
Of wide unrest, perpetual change?
Is nothing then to say
Where it stood yesterday?
My hopes and aims are all undone
I never creep into the sun
But swiftly I implied
Back to the shadowed side
I cannot find an hour's repose
Yes, never finished, nothing closed
No half done task resume
Such chaos rules the loom!
Thus did the fretful thread repine
While mingling in a rich design
On the bright ground of chance
As in a festal dance
Sarah N. Cleghorn
Manchester, VT
Everybody's June, '14 Please don't feel obliged to read all these. I put them in as a post script to your letter, to be destroyed with it."Collection
L. S. Tyler CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Cleghorn, SarahRole
WriterManufacturer
Cleghorn, SarahDate made
1914 - 1914Notes
Date: June 1914Lexicon
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* Communication Artifacts, Manuscripts, Poems