Because I could not stop for Death
Death arrives as a civil suitor with a carriage, and the speaker puts away her labor and her leisure for the sake of his politeness; they drive slowly, with Immortality along, past a school at recess, past fields of gazing grain, past the setting sun. Her gown is only gossamer and her tippet tulle, the dews draw chilly, and the carriage pauses before a house that looks like a swelling of the ground. One of the pieces Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson smoothed into conventional punctuation for the posthumous 1890 selection, and now the best known of the eighteen hundred Dickinson left sewn into hand-bound fascicles.
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