Emily Dickinson Lexicon

darkness (-es), n. [see dark, adj.] (webplay: day, face, light, place, trouble).

1. Murkiness; cloud cover; [fig.] uncertainty; doubt; stupor; confusion in the mind; (see Deuteronomy 28:29).
2. Blackness; absence of light; [fig.] blindness; ignorance; lack of vision; inability to understand; (see Genesis 1:2).
3. Dusk; evening; nightfall.
4. Trouble; tribulation; agony; distress; sorrow; (see Genesis 15:12).
5. Dusk; nighttime, nightfall; evening; twilight; (see Genesis 1:5).
6. Hiding place; private place; clandestine location; (see Job 20:26); [fig.] afterlife; hereafter; paradise; spirit world; promised land of the next life.