(10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

poet Emily Dickinson
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,

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.

Submitted: Tuesday, May 15, 2001


Read poems about / on: pain, heart, life

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  • Sajeet Nair (3/15/2009 2:36:00 AM)

    please provide deatils of this poem

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