Because I could not stop for Death (712)



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Because I could not stop for Death (712)

  by Emily Dickinson


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 –


I heard a Fly buzz (465)

  by Emily Dickinson


I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – 

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air – 

Between the Heaves of Storm – 


The Eyes around – had wrung them dry – 

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset – when the King

Be witnessed – in the Room – 


I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away

What portions of me be

Assignable – and then it was

There interposed a Fly – 


With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz – 

Between the light – and me – 

And then the Windows failed – and then

I could not see to see –



There's a certain Slant of light (258)

  by Emily Dickinson


There's a certain Slant of light,

Winter Afternoons – 

That oppresses, like the Heft

Of Cathedral Tunes – 


Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – 

We can find no scar,

But internal difference,

Where the Meanings, are – 


None may teach it – Any – 

'Tis the Seal Despair – 

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the Air – 


When it comes, the Landscape listens – 

Shadows – hold their breath – 

When it goes, 'tis like the Distance

On the look of Death 


My life closed twice before its close (96)

  by Emily Dickinson


My life closed twice before its close—

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me


So huge, so hopeless to conceive

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell


The Soul selects her own Society (303)

  by Emily Dickinson

The Soul selects her own Society —

Then — shuts the Door —

To her divine Majority —

Present no more —


Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing —

At her low Gate —

Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling

Upon her Mat —


I've known her — from an ample nation —

Choose One —

Then — close the Valves of her attention —

Like Stone —


The Brain – is wider than the sky
by Emily Dickinson
The Brain – is wider than the Sky –

For – put them side by side –

The one the other will contain

With ease – and You – beside –


The Brain is deeper than the sea –

For – hold them – Blue to blue –

The one the other will absorb –

As Sponges – Buckets – do –


The Brain is just the weight of God –

For – Heft them – Pound for Pound –

And they will differ – if they do –

As Syllable from Sound –



There is a solitude of space
by Emily Dickinson
There is a solitude of space

A solitude of sea

A solitude of death, but these

Society shall be

Compared with that profounder site

That polar privacy

A soul admitted to itself –

Finite Infinity.



Water is taught by thirst.
by Emily Dickinson
Water, is taught by thirst,

Land – by the Oceans passed.

Transport – by throe –

Peace – by its battles told –



Love, by memorial Mold –

Birds, by the Snow.
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