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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.
Who were "the Father and
the Son"
We pondered when a
child
And what had they to do
with us -
And when portentous told
With Inference appalling -
By Distance fortified
We thought at least they
are no worse
Than they have been
described.
Who are the Father and the
Son
Did we demand today -
The Father and the Son
himself
Would doubtless specify
But had they the felicity
When we desired to know -
We better Friends had
been, perhaps,
Than Time ensue - to be -
We start to find that we
believe
But once - entirely -
Belief, it does not fit so
well
When altered frequently.
We flush
- that Heaven if
we achieve -
Event ineffable -
We shall have shunned
until ashamed
To own the Miracle -
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