<P> `` Because I could not stop for Death '' is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems : Series 1 in 1890 . The persona of Dickinson 's poem meets personified Death . Death is a gentleman caller who takes a leisurely carriage ride with the speaker to her grave . According to Thomas H. Johnson 's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is 712 . </P>
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Poems : Series 1