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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.
They talk as slow as Legends grow
No mushroom is their mind
But foliage of sterility
Too stolid for the wind -
They laugh as wise as Plots of Wit
Predestined to unfold
The point with bland precision
Portentously untold
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