I cried at Pity-not at Pain (Emily Dickinson Poems)
588I cried at Pity-not at Pain-I heard a Woman say"Poor Child"-and something in her voiceConvicted me-of me-So long I fainted, ...
588I cried at Pity-not at Pain-I heard a Woman say"Poor Child"-and something in her voiceConvicted me-of me-So long I fainted, ...
499Those fair - fictitious People -The Women - plucked awayFrom our familiar Lifetime -The Men of Ivory -Those Boys and ...
175I have never seen "Volcanoes"-But, when Travellers tellHow those old-phlegmatic mountainsUsually so still-Bear within-appalling Ordnance,Fire, and smoke, and gun,Taking Villages ...
A clock stopped — not the mantel's Geneva's farthest skillCan't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still.An awe ...
353A happy lip - breaks sudden -It doesn't state you howIt contemplated - smiling -Just consummated - now -But this ...
599There is a pain - so utter -It swallows substance up -Then covers the Abyss with Trance -So Memory can ...
You left me, sweet, two legacies, --A legacy of loveA Heavenly Father would content,Had He the offer of; You left ...
644You left me-Sire-two Legacies-A Legacy of LoveA Heavenly Father would sufficeHad He the offer of-You left me Boundaries of Pain-Capacious ...
Delight becomes pictorialWhen viewed through pain, —More fair, because impossibleThat any gain.The mountain at a given distanceIn amber lies;Approached, the ...
If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or ...
We miss a Kinsman more When warranted to see Than when withheld of Oceans From possibility A Furlong than a ...
Unto my Books -- so good to turn -- Far ends of tired Days -- It half endears the Abstinence ...
To learn the Transport by the Pain As Blind Men learn the sun! To die of thirst -- suspecting That ...
Those fair -- fictitious People -- The Women -- plucked away From our familiar Lifetime -- The Men of Ivory ...
There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain -- 'Tis Pain's Successor -- When the Soul Has ...
There is a pain -- so utter -- It swallows substance up -- Then covers the Abyss with Trance -- ...
The wind drew off Like hungry dogs Defeated of a bone -- Through fissures in Volcanic cloud The yellow lightning ...
The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost -- The Summit is not given To ...
Pain -- expands the Time -- Ages coil within The minute Circumference Of a single Brain -- Pain contracts -- ...
Pain has but one Acquaintance And that is Death -- Each one unto the other Society enough. Pain is the ...
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
I have never seen "Volcanoes" -- But, when Travellers tell How those old -- phlegmatic mountains Usually so still -- ...
I cried at Pity -- not at Pain -- I heard a Woman say "Poor Child" -- and something in ...
How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to ...
Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me -- With Summers, and ...
Although I put away his life -- An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear, This might ...
Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, ...
It is easy to work when the soul is at play -- But when the soul is in pain -- ...
Ah, Necromancy Sweet! Ah, Wizard erudite! Teach me the skill, That I instil the pain Surgeons assuage in vain, Nor ...
A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- ...
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