by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Pain — has an Element of Blank —
Language: English
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 — Its Infinite realms contain Its Past — enlightened to perceive New Periods — of Pain.
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Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Pain has an element of blank", published 1956 [ voice and clarinet or chamber orchestra ], from The Mob Within the Heart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Logan Skelton , "Pain – has an Element of Blank", 2008 [ soprano and piano ], from Dickinson Songs, Book 2: The Unknown Peninsula, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Starer (1924 - 2001), "Pain has an element of blank", published 1969 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from On the Nature of Things [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 50