To learn the Transport by the Pain

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst—suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!

To stay the homesick—homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore—
Haunted by native lands, the while—
And blue—beloved air!

This is the Sovereign Anguish!
This—the signal woe!
These are the patient "Laureates"
Whose voices—trained—below—

As cend in ceaseless Carol—
Inaudible, indeed,
To us—the duller scholars
Of the Mysterious Bard!  

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 460
Words 72
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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