Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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Phrase. “Rely on”: be supported by; be sustained by; find strength through. 789/740 On a Columnar Self – / How ample to rely … How good the Certainty … Conviction … From furthest Spirit – God

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Stay in place; hold one's ground; [fig.] do one's duty in the face of opposition. 3/2 Our Fathers being weary, / Laid down on Bunker Hill / And tho' full many a morning / Yet they are sleeping still … A coward will remain, Sir, / Until the fight is done;

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Relegate; leave; abandon; send back; force to return for judgement. 1388/1393 Of their peculiar calling / Unqualified to judge / To Nature we remand them / To justify or scourge

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Statement; comment. 952/913 A Man may make a Remark – / In itself – a quiet thing

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Keep in mind; retain in consciousness; know. 33/9 If recollecting were forgetting / Then I remember not.

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Kept in mind; thought of; cared about; thought of fondly. 1232/1256 The Clover's simple Fame / Remembered of the Cow / Is better than enameled Realms / Of notability.

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Knowing; thought; bearing in mind; bringing to mind. 982/738 No Other can reduce / Our mortal Consequence / Like the remembering it be nought

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Memory; image in the mind of something once had but now gone; recollection of a particular object or fact. 245/261

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Cause to remember; force to recall; impel to recollect; bring to mind again; bring to conscious thought. 701/731 A Thought went up my mind today … It just reminded me – 'twas all

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Return; restore; send back 1573/1603 To the bright east she flies, / Brothers of Paradise / Remit her home

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Sorrow; anguish; grief; pain; intense pity; poignant emotion. 1051/1122 I cannot meet the Spring – unmoved – / I feel … A Competition in my sense … And as she vanishes, Remorse / I saw no more of Her

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Distant; far away; out of the way 737/735 And what a privilege to be / But the remotest Star

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Take away; withdraw; shift; put far away; move away. 765/488 The Absolute – removed / The Relative away

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Depict; draw; portray; represent; show; picture; envision; imagine. 678/482 Wolfe demanded during Dying / “Which controlled the Day?” … Montcalm – His opposing Spirit / Rendered with a smile

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Regenerate; resume; begin again; be revived; be replenished; be reestablished; be restored to a former state. (1283/1282) 1091/1051 Let Brooks – renew of Brooks – / But Wells – of failless Ground!

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Fame; celebrity; repute; esteem; prestige; exalted reputation; honored position; eminence among mortals. 1232/1256 The Clover's simple Fame … Is better than … notability. / Renown perceives itself / And that degrades the Flower

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Eminent; prestigious; refined; glorious; majestic; regal; royal; noble; aristocratic; high-born; lofty; exalted; transcendent. 700/730 They spurn the Air, as 'twere too mean / For Creatures so renowned

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Lease; occupy; inhabit; dwell in; lodge in; live in; reside in. 1544/1609 Angels rent the House next our's, / Wherever we remove

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To go, or to make ones way to or from a place or person. 354/610 A butterfly … / Repairing everywhere.

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Meal; sustenance; nutrition; [fig.] spiritual food; [word play on “repassed”] daily bread (see Matthew 6:11). 1567/1623 I can but knock … Repast to me / That somewhere, there exists, / Supremacy

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Ring; peal; echo; signal; reverberate; sound again; [fig.] declare; announce; recite. 172/170 The Bells that in the Steeples be / At first, repeat it slow!

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Abundantly supplied; filled. 377/632 Because Estates can be / Replenished – Faith cannot.

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News; account; statement of information. 793/753 Grief is a Thief – quick startled / Pricks His ear – report to hear / Of that Vast Dark / That swept His being – back … Best Grief is Tongueless – before He'll tell / Burn Him in the Public Square … Since a Rack could'nt coax [an answer] – now

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Relate; tell; state; narrate; describe; relay information; give an account; give news; convey a message. 672/638 The Future never spoke / Nor will he like the Dumb / Report by Sign a Circumstance / Of his profound To Come

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Rest; relaxation; state of quiet or peaceful inaction; [fig.] death; final act of resting. 93/72 Cheerful – as to the village / Tranquil – as to repose / Chastened – as to the Chapel / This humble Tourist rose!