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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.
Which misses most -
The hand that tends
Or heart so gently borne,
'Tis twice as heavy as it was
Because the hand is gone?
Which blesses most
The lip that can,
Or that that went to sleep
With "if I could" endeavoring
Without the strength to shape?
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