Nature

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From The Congo and Other Poems (1914)

Nature

Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,
A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/93/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/93/.

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