When was because I could not stop for death?

Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. read more

Because I could not stop for Death – Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999) read more

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. read more