Huswifery

Edward Taylor * Track #7 On Emily Dickinson

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Album Emily Dickinson

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Edward Taylor

2015

Huswifery by Edward Taylor

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Edward Taylor

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One of the better known poems to emerge from colonial America, “Huswifery” uses the extended metaphor of a spinning wheel—then a common household implement—to describe the components of righteous faith.

William John Wainwright (1855-1931), The Spinning Wheel

Huswifery Annotated

Make me, O Lord, thy Spining Wheele compleate.
Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate
And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee.
My Conversation make to be thy Reele
And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele.

Make me thy Loome then, knit therein this Twine:
And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, winde quills:
Then weave the Web thyselfe. The yarn is fine.
Thine Ordinances make my Fulling Mills.
Then dy the same in Heavenly Colours Choice,
All pinkt with Varnisht Flowers of Paradise.

Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will,
Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory
My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill
My wayes with glory and thee glorify.
Then mine apparell shall display before yee
That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory.

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