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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. Contrast
  2. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  3. This Merit Hath the Worst
  4. Who Robbed the Woods
  5. Going to Heaven!


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