by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Language: English
Our translations: GER
The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands -- And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl -- unwinds -- He plies from Nought to Nought -- In unsubstantial Trade -- Supplants our Tapestries with His -- In half the period -- An Hour to rear supreme His [Continents]1 of Light -- Then dangle from the Housewife's Broom -- His [Boundaries]2 -- forgot --
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Langert: "theories"
2 Langert: "sophistries"
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Bolts of Melody [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jules Langert (b. 1932), "The spider holds a silver ball", from Three Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 56