If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson · Poems by Emily Dickinson
Wisdom & life
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,”
- Author
- Emily Dickinson
- Work
- Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Year
- 1891
- Length
- 41 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #12242
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