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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 mushroom is the
Elf of Plants -
At Evening it is not -
At Morning in a
truffled Hut
It stops
upon
a Spot
As if it tarried
always
And yet its
whole
career
Is shorter than a
Snake's delay
And fleeter than a
Tare -
'Tis Vegetation's Juggler -
The Joy of Alibi -
Doth like a Bubble
antedate
And like a Bubble
hie -
I feel as if the Grass
were
pleased
To have it intermit -
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summers Circumspect
Had Nature any
outcast Face -
Could she a Son contemn -
Had Nature an
Iscariot,
That Mushroom - it is him -
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