Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
b'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'