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Quotation from Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

“We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground;”

Emily Dickinson (spoken by The speaker)

Because I could not stop for Death, Stanza 4 (Lines 13-14) (Poems, First Series, 1890 text)

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The grave appears as a low house, the end of the earthly part of the drive.

Citation: "We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground;" — Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death, Stanza 4 (Lines 13-14) (Poems, First Series, 1890 text). (id because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-q4)

Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype, Unknown author, Public domain.

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