A few of my Favorite things.....
"Stop! This is the empire of Death"
The image above is the entrance into the Catacombs in Paris. The words remind you as you walk under the thick doorway, into the ossuary of bones, you are indeed surrounded by death.
It's so peaceful down there, deep in the earth. All the bones are given deep respect and you can feel it.
"Stop! This is the empire of Death"
The image above is the entrance into the Catacombs in Paris. The words remind you as you walk under the thick doorway, into the ossuary of bones, you are indeed surrounded by death.
It's so peaceful down there, deep in the earth. All the bones are given deep respect and you can feel it.
Well of the seven heads.
*Click on the pic and it will open up a PDF/Word document in a new window to read the story.
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
Emily Dickinson
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: READING EDITION, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 , by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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