Because I Could Not Stop For Death by #EmilyDickinson. 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 grew 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 but a mound. Since then tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses heads Were toward eternity.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:56:46 +0000
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