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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.
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The things we
thought that we
should do
We other things
have done
But those peculiar
industries
Have never been
begun -
The Lands we
thought that we
should seek -
When large enough
to run -
By Speculation
ceded
To Speculation's
Son -
The Heaven in
which we hoped
to pause
When discipline was
done -
Untenable to Logic
But possibly the one -
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