English Poetry. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. The Mystery of Pain. Эмили Дикинсон.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Эмили Дикинсон)

The Mystery of Pain

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s other poems:

1. Summer Shower
2. Psalm of the Day
3. The Sea of Sunset
4. The Outlet
5. New Feet within My Garden Go

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