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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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[This is my letter to the world]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
1.
I. MINE.
2.
II. BEQUEST.
3.
[III. Alter? When the hills do]
4.
IV. SUSPENSE.
5.
V. SURRENDER.
6.
[VI. If you were coming in the fall]
7.
VII. WITH A FLOWER.
8.
VIII. PROOF.
9.
[IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart]
10.
X. TRANSPLANTED.
11.
XI. THE OUTLET.
12.
XII. IN VAIN.
13.
XIII. RENUNCIATION.
14.
XIV. LOVE'S BAPTISM.
15.
XV. RESURRECTION.
16.
XVI. APOCALYPSE.
17.
XVII. THE WIFE.
18.
XVIII. APOTHEOSIS.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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XIX.
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.
Poems by Emily Dickinson