268. After Great Pain by Emily Dickinson
b'E Dickinson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n \\n Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n ---------------------------------------------\\n \\n After Great Pain\\n by Emily Dickinson (1830 \\u2013 1886)\\n\\nAfter great pain, a formal feeling comes \\u2013\\nThe Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs \\u2013\\nThe stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,\\nAnd Yesterday, or Centuries before?\\n\\nThe Feet, mechanical, go round \\u2013\\nA Wooden way\\nOf Ground, or Air, or Ought \\u2013\\nRegardless grown,\\nA Quartz contentment, like a stone \\u2013\\n\\nThis is the Hour of Lead \\u2013\\nRemembered, if outlived,\\nAs Freezing persons, recollect the Snow \\u2013\\nFirst \\u2013 Chill \\u2013 then Stupor \\u2013 then the letting go \\u2013\\n\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\n Reading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'