<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Winding Wool</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She'd bring to me a skein of wool<br>And beg me to hold out my hands;<br>so on my pipe I cease to pull<br>And watch her twine the shining strands<br>Into a ball so snug and neat,<br>Perchance a pair of socks to knit<br>To comfort my unworthy feet,<br>Or pullover my girth to fit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As to the winding I would sway,<br>A poem in my head would sing,<br>And I would watch in dreamy way<br>The bright yarn swiftly slendering.<br>The best I liked were coloured strands<br>I let my pensive pipe grow cool . . .<br>Two active and two passive hands,<br>So busy wining shining wool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! Two of those hands are cold,<br>And in these days of wrath and wrong,<br>I am so wearyful and old,<br>I wonder if I've lived too long.<br>So in my loneliness I sit<br>And dream of sweet domestic rule . . .<br>When gentle women used to knit,<br>And men were happy winding wool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508960" data-title="Winding Wool de Robert William Service" data-description="She'd bring to me a skein of wool And beg me to hold out my hands; so on my pipe I cease to pull And watch her twine the shining strands Into a ball so snug and neat, Perchance a pair of socks to knit To comfort my unworthy feet, Or pullover my gi..."></div> </div> </div>

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