The Mind

Needlework: Finished To-Night

by Hazel Hall 1886–1924

From Curtains (1921)

The Mind

I have unleashed my hands, like hounds,
And I must not call them back;
They are off with virile bounds
On the hidden quarry's track.

Though there come rain or sun —
Fleet and lean and white,
They will follow the scent until they run
The quarry to earth, and the quarry is night.

MLA

Hall, Hazel. “Needlework: Finished To-Night.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/55/.

Chicago

Hall, Hazel. “Needlework: Finished To-Night.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/55/.

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