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| Emily Dickinson |
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her
to return home after one year.... More > |
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| Because I could not stop for Death (712)
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by Emily Dickinson |
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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity – |
Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin
ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright
© 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ©
1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. |
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