Poet's Corner

I'm in a poetry class that makes me feel old. The upside, though, is that I'm getting to read some good poetry. Here's an incredible piece by Emily Dickinson for your reading pleasure:

Pain - has an Element of Blank -
It cannot recollect
When it begun - Or if there were
A time when it was not -

It has no Future - but itself -
It's Infinite contain
It's Past - enlightened to perceive
New Periods - Of Pain.