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Browse alphabetically through more than 9,000 words in Dickinson’s poetry, as defined in the Emily Dickinson Lexicon, based in part on her dictionary, Webster's 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language.
Heart not so heavy as mine
Wending late home
As it passed my window
Whistled itself a tune -
A careless snatch - a ballad
A ditty of the street.
Yet to my irritated ear
An Anodyne so sweet
It was as if a Bobolink
Sauntering this way
Carolled, paused
,
Then bubbled slow away.
It was as if a chirping brook
Upon
the dusty way,
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
Tomorrow night will come again
Perhaps weary, and sore -
Ah Bugle! by my window
I pray you pass once more -
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