2. “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”
By Emily Dickinson

4. Because I Could Not Stop For Death
He Kindly Stopped For Me

7. The Carriage Held But Just Ourselves

9. And Immortality

11. We Slowly Drove

13. He Knew No Haste

15. I Had To Put Away
My Labor

17. And My Leisure, Too
For His Civility

19. We Passed the School,
Where Children Strove
At Recess in the Ring

21. We Passed the Fields of Grazing Grain

23. We Passed the Setting Sun

25. Or rather – He passed us –

27. The Dews drew quivering and
chill –

29. For only Gossamer, my Gown –

31. My Tippet – only Tulle –

33. We paused before a House
that seemed

35. A Swelling of the Ground

37. The Roof was Barely Visible

39. The Cornice in the Ground

41. Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet

43. Feels shorter than the Day

45. I first surmised the Horses’ Heads

47. Were toward Eternity –

50. Why is Death personified as a
gentleman, a lover?
Why is Death dramatized as a date, a
rendezvous?
How does this poem prompt you to
think and feel about your own death?