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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.
For Death, -- or rather
For the things 'twill buy,
These put away
Life's opportunity.
The things that Death will buy
Are Room, -- Escape
From Circumstances,
And a Name.
How gifts of Life
With Death's gifts will compare,
We know not --
For the rates stop Here.
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