Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
E Dickinson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n \n Giving voice to the poetry of the past. \n\n ---------------------------------------------------\n \n \n Because I could not stop for Death\n by Emily Dickinson (1830 \u2013 1886) \n \n Because I could not stop for Death, \n He kindly stopped for me; \n The carriage held but just ourselves \n And Immortality. \n \n We slowly drove, he knew no haste, \n And I had put away \n My labor, and my leisure too, \n For his civility. \n \n We passed the school where children played \n At wrestling in a ring; \n We passed the fields of gazing grain, \n We passed the setting sun. \n \n We paused before a house that seemed \n A swelling of the ground; \n The roof was scarcely visible, \n The cornice but a mound. \n \n Since then \u2019t is centuries; but each \n Feels shorter than the day \n I first surmised the horses\u2019 heads \n Were toward eternity. \u2003\n \n\nFirst aired: 23 September 2007\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008