In this excerpt from Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death," the narrator describes a <u>dilapidated house</u>.
Explanation:
The "House" that swells in the ground is the mound from a grave; the roof is the headstone, and the description of the cornice being in the ground means that the grave is the actual house of the entombed; so only the roof (tombstone) is visible above the earth.