A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
This is one of my favorite poems, revisited today:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
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I especially like the last two lines of the first stanza. There's a surprising energy to them. What a nice little break from my day. Thanks for posting!
