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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.
To see her is a picture,
To hear her is a tune,
To know her an intemperance
As innocent as June;
which to be undone
Is dearer than Redemption --
Which never to receive,
Makes mockery of melody
It might have been to live.
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