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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.
Nature is what we see,
The Hill, the Afternoon --
Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,
Nay -- Nature is Heaven.
Nature is what we hear,
The Bobolink, the Sea --
Thunder, the Cricket --
Nay, -- Nature is Harmony.
Nature is what we know
But have no art to say,
So impotent our wisdom is
To Her simplicity.
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