Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me.

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Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me.

Emily Dickinson

1886

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Inevitability of death Death

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1886

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Emily Dickinson

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Dickinson, Emily. "Because I could not stop for Death." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

Original citation

Dickinson, Emily. "The Chariot." Poems by Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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