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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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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 robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. A Service of Song
  2. Love’s Baptism
  3. Rouge Gagne
  4. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
  5. Unreturning


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