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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.
We send the wave to find the wave,
An errand so divine
The messenger enamored too
Forgetting to return,
We make the sage decision still
Soever made in vain,
The only time to dam the sea
Is when the sea is gone.
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