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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.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed;
To comprehend a nectar
Requireth
sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear, of victory,
As hedefeateddying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
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