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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.
Her Sweet turn to leave
the Homestead
Came the Darker Way -
Carriages - Be Sure - and
Guests - too
True -
But for Holiday
'Twas more pitiful Endeavor
Than did swelling
Loaded Sea
O'er the Curls attempt to
caper
It had cast away -
Never Bride had such
Assembling -
Never kinsmen kneeled
To salute so fair a
Forehead -
Garland be indeed -
fitter for the feet
Fitter Feet - of Her before us -
Than whatever Brow
Art of Snow - or Trick
of Lily
Ever could endow -
Possibly bestow
Of Her Father - Whoso
claim
ask Her -
He shall seek as high
As the Palm - that serve
the Desert -
To obtain the sky -
Distance - be Her only
Signal
Motion -
If 'tis Nay - or Yes -
Acquiescence - or Demurral -
Whosoever guess -
He - must pass the Crystal Angle
That obscure Her face -
He - must have achieved in
person
Equal Paradise -
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