1951
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Composed by 
Otto Luening
Otto Luening Text by 
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson Song Collection
"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking" is the fourth song of Otto Luening's Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Text
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.
Sheet Music
Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Otto Luening
1. Our Share of Night to Bear
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared