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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson
“Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.”
Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Time and Eternity XXVII (The Chariot) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text))
The opening stanza of the poem the editors titled The Chariot, in which Death is a courteous caller.
Citation: "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality." — Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Time and Eternity XXVII (The Chariot) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q4)
Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.
