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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.
A Pit - but Heaven over
it -
And Heaven beside, and
Heaven abroad;
And yet a Pit -
With Heaven over it.
To stir would be to slip -
To look would be to drop -
To dream - to sap the Prop
That holds my chances up.
Ah! Pit! With Heaven
over it!
The depth is all my
thought -
I dare not ask my
feet -
'Twould start us where
we sit
So straight you'd scarce
suspect
It was a Pit - with
fathoms under it
Its
Circuit just the same
Whose Doom to whom
'Twould start them -
We - could tremble -
But since we got a
Bomb -
And held it in our Bosom -
Nay - Hold it - it is calm -
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