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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


The Spider


A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Superiority to Fate
  2. Hope (Hope is a subtle glutton)
  3. The Forgotten Grave
  4. Forbidden Fruit. I
  5. I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise


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