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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLIND POET, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the poet raftery
Last Line: To a kind but coinless throng.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine
Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped
First Line: I am the poet raftery
Last Line: To a kind but coinless throng.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine
Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped
I am the Poet Raftery
Full of hope and charity;
With eyes that at the day but guess,
With gentleness in misery.
West I wander through the night
By the light of my own mind;
Weak and wearied I contend,
Till my journey's end I find.
I, who once in Halls of State
Guerdon great received for song,
Harp, amid the rain and wind,
To a kind but coinless throng.
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