The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
Alone and in a Circumstance Reluctant to be told A spider on my reticence deliberately • determinately • impertinentlyAssiduously crawled And so much more at Home than IImmediately grew I felt myselfthe a visitor Andhastily hurriedly withdrew - Revisiting my late abode with articles of claimI found it quietly assumed foras a Gymnasium Where Tax asleep and Title off ThePeasants inmates of the Air Perpetualcomplacence presumption tookAs each wereonly • lawful special Heir - If any strike me on the street I can return the Blow - If anyseize take my property According to the LawThe Statute is my Learned friend But what redress can be For an offence notanywhere here nor there So not in Equity - That Larceny of time and mindThe marrow of the Day By spider, or forbid it Lord That I should specify -