Because I could not stop for Death
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
How happy is the little
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about
And Exigencies never fears—
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of
Across a barn or through a
Debates if it will go
I'm nobody
Who are you
Are you nobody, too
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell
49I never lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod
Twice have I stood a
Before the door of God
Unable are the Loved to
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity—Unable they that love—to
For Love reforms
Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Before you thought of spring,
Except as a surmise,
You see,
God bless his suddenness,
My Faith is larger than the Hills —So when the Hills decay —My Faith must take the Purple
To show the Sun the way —'Tis first He steps upon the Vane —And then — upon the Hill —And then abroad the World He
To do His Golden Will —And if Hi...
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,