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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.
The most triumphant bird
I ever
knew or met,
embarked upon
a twig today,
and till Dominion set,
I
perish to behold
so competent a sight,
and sang for nothing scrutable,
but impudent delight -
Retired, and resumed
his transitive estate,
To what delicious accident
does finest glory fit!
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