Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST



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First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white
Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs


I FOUND a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appal? --
If design govern in a thing so small.





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