Freeverse
Public-domain poetry, pleasantly readable
Non omnis moriar

Pain has an element of blank;

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. Pain has an element of blank;
  2. It cannot recollect
  3. When it began, or if there were
  4. A day when it was not.
  5.  
  6. It has no future but itself,
  7. Its infinite realms contain
  8. Its past, enlightened to perceive
  9. New periods of pain.

Tip: click a line to share it — or shift-click another line to share a range.