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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.
It will not harm her magic pace
That we so far behind
Her distances propitiate
As forests touch the wind,
Not hoping for his notice far,
But vainer to adore
'Tis Glory's overtakelessness
That makes our running poor.
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