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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


A Word


A word is dead
When it is said,
  Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
  That day.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Is Bliss, Then, Such Abyss
  2. Childish Griefs
  3. What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
  4. Desire
  5. Power


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Gilbert Chesterton A Word ("A word came forth in Galilee, a word like to a star")

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