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Hazel Hall

1886–1924

Hazel Hall (1886–1924) was a Portland, Oregon poet who was confined to a wheelchair from childhood and earned her living as a needlewoman. Her poems draw on the window, the street sounds and the sewing that made up her days.

Her books were Curtains (John Lane, 1921), Walkers (1923) and the posthumous Cry of Time (1928). The poems here are those of Curtains, in its three parts: Curtains, Needlework and Spring from a Window.

Poems (85)

  1. Curtains
  2. Frames
  3. June Night
  4. Sun Glamour
  5. The World's Voice
  6. Seasons
  7. Footsteps
  8. To a Door
  9. Floor of a Room
  10. The Hand-Glass
  11. Silence
  12. Things That Grow
  13. Stairways
  14. Night Silence
  15. Counterpanes
  16. Passers-By
  17. Late Winter
  18. Because of Jonquils
  19. Unseen
  20. Company
  21. A Child Dancing
  22. Roads
  23. The Room Upstairs
  24. The Proud Steed
  25. Songs for Dreams
  26. Nobody Passes
  27. Shadows
  28. Twilight
  29. Ecstasy
  30. Captive
  31. Cowardice
  32. Before Thought
  33. Shadow-Bound
  34. A Falling Star
  35. Feet
  36. Flash
  37. Echoes
  38. Loneliness
  39. Sunlight Through a Window
  40. Record
  41. My Song
  42. The Grey Veil
  43. The Answer
  44. Hours
  45. The Circle
  46. Defeat
  47. The Impartial Giver
  48. Sands
  49. Needlework: Knitting Needles
  50. Needlework: Stitches
  51. Needlework: Monograms
  52. Needlework: Late Hours
  53. Needlework: Mending
  54. Needlework: Bead Work
  55. Needlework: Seams
  56. Needlework: Finished To-Night
  57. Needlework: A Baby's Dress
  58. Needlework: Cross-Stitch
  59. Needlework: Plain Sewing
  60. Needlework: Sewing Hands
  61. Needlework: Lingerie
  62. Needlework: Filet Crochet
  63. Needlework: Heavy Threads
  64. Needlework: Buttonholes
  65. Needlework: Puzzled Stitches
  66. Needlework: Summer Sewing
  67. Needlework: Habit
  68. Needlework: Paths
  69. Needlework: Ripping
  70. Needlework: Made of Crepe de Chine
  71. Needlework: Measurements
  72. Needlework: Instruction
  73. Needlework: Then the Wind Blew
  74. Needlework: My Needle's Thread
  75. Needlework: Two Sewing
  76. Needlework: The Listening Macaws
  77. Needlework: The Long Day
  78. Needlework: Inanimate
  79. Needlework: After Embroidering
  80. Needlework: Three Songs for Sewing
  81. Needlework: Late Sewing
  82. Spring from a Window: Blossom-Time
  83. Spring from a Window: In April
  84. Spring from a Window: When There Is April
  85. Spring from a Window: Foreboding

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