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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.
Rearrange a "Wife's" Affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy
Fastness -
Blush, my unacknowledged
clay -
Seven years of troth have
taught thee
More than Wifehood ever may!
Love that never leaped its
socket -
Trust entrenched
in narrow
pain -
Constancy thro' fire - awarded -
Anguish - bare of anodyne!
Burden - borne so far
triumphant -
None suspect me of the crown,
For I wear the "Thorns" till Sunset -
Then - my Diadem put on.
Big my Secret but it's
bandaged -
It will never get away
Till the Day its
Weary Keeper
Leads it through the Grave
to thee.
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