Hello Friends,
I’m going to cheat today and send you two short poems by Emily Dickinson, both related to our agency and purpose in the world. The first is known as poem 919 and written circa 1864, and the second is known as poem 1391 written circa 1877.
Emily Dickinson has been previously featured many times in my poem-a-day emails, including in her own handwriting.
Enjoy.
Ællen
I’m going to cheat today and send you two short poems by Emily Dickinson, both related to our agency and purpose in the world. The first is known as poem 919 and written circa 1864, and the second is known as poem 1391 written circa 1877.
Emily Dickinson has been previously featured many times in my poem-a-day emails, including in her own handwriting.
Enjoy.
Ællen
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.
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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.
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They might not need me — yet they might —
I’ll let my Heart be just in sight —
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity —
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I’ll let my Heart be just in sight —
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity —
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