Emily Dickinson Pain Poems

After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs--
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
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344

'Twas the old—road—through pain—
That unfrequented—one—
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599

There is a pain—so utter—
It swallows substance up—
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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
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Pain--has an Element of Blank--
It cannot recollect
When it begun--or if there were
A time when it was not--
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588

I cried at Pity—not at Pain—
I heard a Woman say
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167

To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
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967

Pain—expands the Time—
Ages coil within
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788

Joy to have merited the Pain—
To merit the Release—
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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
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63

If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
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772

The hallowing of Pain
Like hallowing of Heaven,
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Are Friends Delight or Pain?
Could Bounty but remain
Riches were good -
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