Tesseva, a notte, un ragno

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

A spider sewed at night

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER GER ITA

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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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "A spider", published 1971 [ SA chorus and piano ], from Nature [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "A spider", published 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1, two settings [sung text checked 1 time]
by Donald Grantham (b. 1947), "A spider sewed at night", published 1983 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Seven Choral Settings of Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "A spider sewed at night", 1987 [ soprano and piano ], from Night Dances - 6 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tesseva, a notte, un ragno

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English

Tesseva, a notte, un ragno
Senza nessuna luce
Sopra di un arco bianco.
Se gorgiera di dama
O sudario di gnomo
Lo sapeva lui solo.
Dell'immortalità
La sua strategia
Era fisiognomia.

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Based on:

a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-07
Line count: 9
Word count: 31