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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.
Her face was in a bed of hair,
Like flowers in a plot --
Her hand was whiter than the sperm
That feeds the
sacred light.
Her tongue more
tender than the tune
That totters in the leaves --
Who hears may be incredulous,
Who witnesses, believes.
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