In the middle of this poem, the narrator pauses before "a house that seemed / a swelling of the ground".
In the middle of this poem, the narrator pauses before "a house that seemed / a swelling of the ground". Earlier, the poet had "passed the school where children played" and also "the fields of grazing grain" with her guest, for whom she had "put away / [her] labour, and [her] leisure too". The poem ends by declaring that the narrator has passed centuries that "each / feels shorter than the day" and surmising that "the horses' heads / were toward eternity". Opening with the title entity stopping for her, for 10 points, name this Emily Dickinson poem about a carriage ride with the titular figure and Immortality.
In the middle of this poem, the narrator pauses before "a house that seemed / a swelling of the ground".
“{Because I Could Not Stop for Death}”