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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Dying

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Sympathy, Death
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Spiritual, Night
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.463, Harvard University Press

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Encouragement, Heaven
"My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Desire, Proud
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.498, Harvard University Press

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Spiritual, Emotional
"Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

Emily Dickinson
Death, Near Death
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.74, First Avenue Editions

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Fate, Doors
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1354, Harvard University Press

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Winning, Brave

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Blow, Vitality
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.293, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

My life closed twice before its close

Emily Dickinson
Death
"My life closed twice before its close" l. 1 (unknown date)

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Emily Dickinson
Beauty, Death, Truth
"I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Letting Go, Trying
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

Emily Dickinson
Death, Men, Light
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.166, Harvard University Press

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Bustle, Consequence
Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.184, Wordsworth Editions

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Distance, Years
Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published 1896).

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Emily Dickinson
Death, Tides, Sides
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.67, Harvard University Press

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Loss, Lost
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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