 | Norman Rosten - 1967 - 68 psl.
...to wait to know more. The world will have patience for her—she who was so modest before the world. "I tie my hat, I crease my shawl, Life's little duties do, precisely . . ." (Austin enters, stands close to Vinnie.) And so her life must have continued, those last four... | |
 | Sister Mary James Power - 1970 - 164 psl.
...significant of those meaningful little duties of life that may be done graciously or bluntly in His service: I tie my hat, I crease my shawl, Life's little duties...new blossoms in the glass, And throw the old away; 1 push a petal from my gown That anchored there,— I weigh The time 'twill he till six o'clock, I... | |
 | Hayden Carruth - 1992 - 256 psl.
...Likewise the poet Dickinson. Here is poem number 443, which I've not seen much commented on either: 756 I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl — Life's little...— I push a petal from my Gown That anchored there — I weigh The time 'twill be till six o'clock I have so much to do — And yet — Existence —... | |
 | Jennifer M. Jeffers - 1998 - 280 psl.
...the detail in her restless quest to at once occlude and unveil the egregious subtext of human life: I tie my hat — I crease my Shawl — Life's little...precisely — As the very least Were infinite — to me — Therefore — we do life's labor — Though life's Reward — be done — With scrupulous exactness... | |
 | Wendy Martin - 2002 - 276 psl.
...performative nature of gender. In "I tie my Hat" (Fr 522) gender turns out to be an act of simulation. I tie my Hat - I crease my Shawl Life's little duties...away I push a petal from my Gown That anchored there - I weigh The time 'twill be till six o'clock So much I have to do - [I have so much] This speaker... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 2004 - 260 psl.
...me — Questo sara it mio Paradiso — la gloria Che Loro — pronuncino it mio nome — (c. 1862) I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl — Life's little...— I push a petal from my Gown That anchored there — I weigh The time ‘twill be till six o'clock I have so much to do — And yet — Existence —... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 2006 - 446 psl.
...como hombres o mujeres ya completos, cuando el mandado para el que vinimos a la carne está hecho. I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl — / Life's little...I push a petal from my Gown / That anchored there — I weigh / The time 'twill be till six o'clock / 1 have so much to do — / And yet — Existence... | |
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I tie my Hat- I crease my Shawl Life's little duties do - precisely As the very least Were infinite - to me I put new Blossoms in the Glass And throw the old... 