A spider sewed at night

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.

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems by Emily Dickinson, published 1891

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, no. ?
by Donald Grantham (1947-) , "A spider sewed at night", published 1983 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Seven Choral Settings of Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. ?

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