Read the poem: “The Mystery of Pain”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Mystery of Pain

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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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It has no future but itself,

Its infinite realms contain

Its past, enlightened to perceive

New periods of pain.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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