If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
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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.
About this text
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson, 1830–1886
- Printing used
- Poems (1890)
- First published
- 1890
- Public domain
- This printing 1890, before 1931
- Often chosen
- for mom, for grandma, for a woman, non-religious, short