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Every Day Poems

A Poem A Day

DESIGN by Robert Frost

June 2, 2010 by Every Writer

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Design

by Robert Frost

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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