There is a pain -- so utter --
It swallows substance up --
Then covers the Abyss with Trance --
So Memory can step
Around -- across -- upon it --
As one within a Swoon --
Goes safely -- where an open eye --
Would drop Him -- Bone by Bone.
Classic poem
There is a pain -- so utter --
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- There is a pain -- so utter --
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- love, grief, time
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