Poems

Poet Emily Dickinson on the value of small actions:

"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: "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking"

There’s a famous WWI poem about how one generation sacrifices for another, hopes that they can carry the work onwards. “To you from failing hands we throw,” it reads, “The torch; be yours to hold it high.”