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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Pain


PAIN--has an Element of Blank--
It cannot recollect
When it begun--or if there were
A time when it was not--

It has no Future--but itself--
Its Infinite Contain
Its Past--enlightened to perceive
New Periods--of Pain. 



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. A Shady Friend for Torrid Days
  2. Sight
  3. Portraits Are to Daily Faces
  4. The Goal
  5. The Butterfly's Assumption-Gown


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Thomas Brown Pain ("The Man that hath great griefs I pity not")
  • Sara Teasdale Pain ("Waves are the sea's white daughters")

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