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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.
The road to Paradise is plain
And holds scarce one
Not that it is not firm
But we presume
A dappled road
Is more preferred.
The throngs of Paradise are few.
Not me - nor you -
But unsuspected things
Mines have no wings.
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