A Noiseless Patient Spider is a popular poem by Walt Whitman. a foundational American poet, essayist, and journalist. He was known as the father of free verse. His poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider is a short two-stanza free verse poem. Published in 1868. It explores the themes of isolation and the search for connection in life.
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.