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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.
Endow the Living with the Tears
You squander on the Dead,
And they were men and women now,
Around your fireside,
Instead of passive creatures,
Denied the cherishing
Till they the cherishing deny
With Death's ethereal
scorn.
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