Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| BECAUSE I could not stop for Death, | |
| He kindly stopped for me; | |
| The carriage held but just ourselves | |
| And Immortality. | |
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| We slowly drove, he knew no haste, | 5 |
| And I had put away | |
| My labor, and my leisure too, | |
| For his civility. | |
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| We passed the school where children played | |
| At wrestling in a ring; | 10 |
| We passed the fields of gazing grain, | |
| We passed the setting sun. | |
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| We paused before a house that seemed | |
| A swelling of the ground; | |
| The roof was scarcely visible, | 15 |
| The cornice but a mound. | |
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| Since then ’t is centuries; but each | |
| Feels shorter than the day | |
| I first surmised the horses’ heads | |
| Were toward eternity. | 20 |
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