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.
Classic poem
Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- hope, grief, identity, time
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