Because I could not Stop for Death

by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality !e slo"ly drove, he kne" no haste, And I had put a"ay #y labor, and my leisure too, $or his civility !e passed the school, "here children strove At recess, in the ring; !e passed the fields of ga%ing grain, !e passed the setting sun &r rather, he passed us; The de"s gre" 'uivering and chill, $or only gossamer my go"n, #y tippet only tulle !e paused before a house that seemed A s"elling of the ground; The roof "as scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound (ince then )tis centuries, and yet each $eels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses) heads !ere to"ard eternity