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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. Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn
  2. As Summer into Autumn Slips
  3. The Oriole's Secret
  4. Fire
  5. Real


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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