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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.
I watched her face to see which way
She took the awful news,
Whether she died before she heard --
Or in protracted bruise
Remained a few short years with us,
Each heavier than the last --
A further afternoon to fail,
As Flower at fall of Frost.
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