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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.
"Mama" never forgets her birds -
Though in another tree.
She looks down just as often
And just as tenderly,
As when her little mortal nest
With cunning care she wove -
If either of her "sparrows fall",
She "notices" above.
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