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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 toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,
Of earl and midge
The privilege.
Why swagger then?
The gnat's supremacy
Is large as thine.
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