Death & Dying
A spider sewed at night
Death & Dying
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.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “A spider sewed at night.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/214/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “A spider sewed at night.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/214/.
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