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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


The Past


The past is such a curious creature,
  To look her in the face
A transport may reward us,
  Or a disgrace.

Unarmed if any meet her,
  I charge him, fly!
Her rusty ammunition
  Might yet reply!



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Philosophy
  2. This Merit Hath the Worst
  3. Contrast
  4. Ventures
  5. Disenchantment


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Percy Shelley The Past ("Wilt thou forget the happy hours")
  • Ralph Emerson The Past ("The debt is paid")
  • Henry Timrod The Past ("To-day’s most trivial act may hold the seed")
  • Ella Wilcox The Past ("Fling my past behind me, like a robe")
  • William Bryant The Past ("Thou unrelenting Past!")

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