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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.
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality
unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befel.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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