The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed -
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified

By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land -
Neglected Son of Genius,
I take thee by the Hand.

Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 3, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1373.

Composition:

Set to music by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The spider", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 14, Peters Edition

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896

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• GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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