Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A SPIDER-WEB, by GEORGE HOOPER FERRIS


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TO A SPIDER-WEB, by                    
First Line: I would I were a spider
Last Line: And evermore be faithful, throughout eternity.
Subject(s): Courtship


I WOULD I were a spider;
My web I'd then make wider
Than the limits of the ever-restless sea.
Each strand should then be longer,
Each silken thread be stronger
Than mighty ocean cable, to catch my lady free.

If once within my bower,
Don't think that I'd devour
That little one who is so dear to me;
I'd just sit down beside her,
Like a very loving spider,
And evermore be faithful, throughout eternity.





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