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Poems by Emily Dickinson: XI ("If the foolish")

by EmilyDickinson X A Syllable XI If the foolish call them 'flowers,' Need the wiser tell? If the savans 'classify' them, It is just as well! Those who read the Revelations Must not criticise…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Brain

XLII XLIV The Brain The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. The brain is deeper than the sea,…

cuneiform

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Examples of the development of cuneiform cuneiformcuneiformky&oomacr;nēˈĭfôrm [key] [Lat.,=wedge-shaped], system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th…

alphabet

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Examples of letters in various alphabets (arrows indicate the direction of reading) alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Forgotten

IX XI Forgotten There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man. It hurls its barbed syllables,— At once is mute again. But where it fell The saved will tell On…