Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –

Source: Poem, c. 1863 (published 1890)
Written: c. 1863

About this quotation

In the poem, Death arrives as a courteous driver, with Immortality as the only other passenger in the carriage. The first edition in 1890 printed it under the title “The Chariot”, which was the editors’ addition, not Dickinson’s.

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