Ode To Joy

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

(I must be feeling extremely lazy of late: I keep posting other people’s poems instead of writing my own. 😛 )

 

This poem touched me deeply: I hope you will receive the same encouragement and hope I did from this brief, yet poignant poem.  Resolve to make someone’s life a little brighter, sweeter, and easier today.

 

“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”  Galatians 6:2

 

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

By Emily Dickinson

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.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-by-emily-dickinson

6 comments found

  2. Oh my word! I found this after you emailed me Odelia. God never stops working miracles!
    Cynthia Kay (AP Lang)

  4. Reminds me of the song “Take These Wings”:

    I found a sparrow lying on the ground
    Her life, I knew, would soon be at an end
    I knelt before her as she made a sound
    And listened as she said, ‘My friend…

    Take these wings and learn to fly
    To the highest mountain in the sky
    Take these eyes and learn to see
    All the things so dear to me.

    Take this song and learn to sing
    Fill your hearts with all the joy of spring
    Take this heart and set it free
    Let it fly beyond the sea.’

    I found another sparrow on the sand
    A tiny bird whose life had just begun
    I picked him up and held him in my hand
    I smiled at him and said, ‘My son…

    Take these wings and learn to fly
    To the highest mountain in the sky
    Take these eyes and learn to see
    All the things so dear to me.

    Take this song and learn to sing
    Fill your hearts with all the joy of spring
    Take this heart and set it free
    Let it fly beyond the sea.

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