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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BLINDNESS Matches Found: 211 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (BLINDED BY GIANT LEAPS), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded by giant leaps, we've met, travellers through mirages Last Line: That, as I lie close to you, changes its color Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Activity; Blindness A BLIND CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her baby brother laughed last night Last Line: But I am dumb, for she is blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped A BLIND GIRL WEAVING, by HELEN CHLADEK Poem Text First Line: All day she sits and works before her loom Last Line: And slowly pulls the threads back, one by one. Subject(s): Blindness; Weaving & Weavers; Visually Handicapped A BLIND WOMAN, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She had turned her face up into Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped A CHALLENGE, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I list with the ears of my soul to the world Last Line: And they say I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Visually Handicapped A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped A FRAGMENT. THE BLIND MAN, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Say, reverend man, why midst this stormy night Last Line: "but varied joys and pains should all the world engage." Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped A GIRL LEADING HER BLIND MOTHER THROUGH THE WOOD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The green leaves as we pass Last Line: With but one sense the soul may overflow. Subject(s): Blindness; Mothers; Visually Handicapped A PRAYER FOR LIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the country light, o lord Last Line: And make my blindman's holidays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Country Life; God; Light; Prayer; Visually Handicapped A QUERY, by GEORGE WESLEY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Does stygic darkness reign wherein you dwell? Last Line: More blind are they who will not use their eyes? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Peace; Soul; Visually Handicapped A QUESTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do I want of you? You fill Last Line: I think the world hears my heart beat. Subject(s): Blindness; Kisses; Love; Visually Handicapped A SEEING HEART; TO 'FANNY CROSBY', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blind singer over the sea Last Line: When our hearts shall sing and our eyes shall see! Subject(s): Blindness; Crosby, Frances Jane (1820-1915); Hymns (as Literary Form); Visually Handicapped A SKETCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blindest buzzard that I know Last Line: Where? What? And turn away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Visually Handicapped ADDRESS TO A BACHELOR ON A DELICATE OCCASION, by PRISCILLA POINTON Poem Text First Line: You bid me write, sir, I comply Last Line: Adieu -- enjoy your empty fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Pickering, Mrs. I. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped AMENDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were blind, / nor never knew the sweet green glory of the spring Last Line: Than this — your love and sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Death; God; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The AN ANSWER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You call me cold: you wonder why Last Line: The touch of ice and fire is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Nature; Stoicism; Visually Handicapped ANSWER TO 'TO A BLIND MAN IN LOVE', by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm blind, 'tis true, but, in love's rules, defect Last Line: The touch enjoys what's to the sight denied. Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Visually Handicapped APPEAL OF THE BLIND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye see the glorious sun Last Line: And cause the blind to see? Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped APPLES ON THE FLOOR, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Somehow the blind artist knows Last Line: And the feeling we get when we eat raw meat Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters APPREHENSION OF BLINDNESS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon mine eyes the darkness came Last Line: By the good hand of jesus christ my lord! Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BATTLE AFTER WAR, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Subject(s): Blindness; War; Visually Handicapped BATTLE AFTER WAR, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Last Line: He said. And we see two now in his place, %where there was room for only one before Subject(s): Blindness; War BENHAM'S DISK: 4. COLOR BLINDED, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Hydrangea require acidic soil to change color Last Line: We have reached paradise. O eden's black serpent!' Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes BIG CATCH, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: When he's in his studio, the blind artist Last Line: When it's still wet Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters BLIND, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No further, child, to-night; your mother's tired Last Line: I will not share it. It is all mine. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: Seeking god Last Line: And still waters. Subject(s): Blindness; God; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some can make out shadows Last Line: The light. People go by without faces Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; Women BLIND, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blind man knows the sun because of its noise Subject(s): Blindness BLIND, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: The blind blond horse is dancing under Subject(s): Blindness BLIND, by JEAN MILNE GOWER Poem Source First Line: All my life I have been blind Subject(s): Blindness BLIND, by JUNE RICHARDSON LUCAS Poem Text First Line: He saw the noonday sun Last Line: He did not know that he was blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Social Protest; Vision; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War BLIND, by NORMAN V. PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I cannot view the bloom upon the rose Last Line: And thank my god and do not ask for more. Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is a sorry thing Last Line: God bless her! -- help him! -- save us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Friendship; Life; Love; Visually Handicapped BLIND, by ADELINE RUBIN Poem Source First Line: They call me blind Subject(s): Blindness BLIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His headstrong thoughts that once in anger strife Last Line: Gropes with his staff along the rumbling city. Subject(s): Blindness; Soldiers' Writings; Visually Handicapped BLIND, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He might be changing the tire on the pickup Last Line: It lives through the night Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Life; Tragedy BLIND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind! Dear sun, I dreamed that I was blind Last Line: That my clear-seeing eyes are blind indeed? Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing, the blind boys Last Line: Of an apocalypse? Subject(s): Blindness; Consolation; Visually Handicapped BLIND (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again as in the desert way Last Line: Bring back the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is then the light so near Last Line: Alas, but cannot see! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND ARTIST AS ACTOR, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist draws a circle inside a square Last Line: It's hard to tell which is which Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters BLIND ARTIST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT SUCCESS, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist sees with the eye Last Line: The palette, and the canvas Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters BLIND ARTIST HELPS HIS AUDIENCE, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Every time the blind artist says he moves Last Line: Would we know what the painting means Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND BOY, by F. LISTER HAWKS Poem Source First Line: It was a blessed summer day Subject(s): Blindness BLIND BOY READING, by SIDNEY DRAKE Poem Source First Line: With lifted head and far, unshifting gaze Subject(s): Blindness BLIND BUT HAPPY, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O what a happy soul am I Last Line: I cannot, and I won't. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND EYES THAT SEE; SONNET, by SAMUEL A. DE WITT Poem Text First Line: These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen Last Line: Before the inner vision of your eyes. Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped BLIND FOLK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See them! My soul! How dreadful they appear Last Line: Poor old blind folk! From heaven what can they seek?' Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, with her eyes Last Line: Be silent and final Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Blindness BLIND GIRL TO A SYMPATHIZER, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Could I not hear the suppliant whine Last Line: And you could truly say that I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Sympathy; Visually Handicapped; Empathy BLIND GUIDES, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: And who are these poor souls who in your name Last Line: Would judge the nations by their garbled truth. Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLIND MAN, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: His eyes are restless as unhatched eggs Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN, by GODFREY GREEN Poem Source First Line: A blind man walked down the street, his ... Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I threw aside my stick and beggar's clothes Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN, by JAMES LEWISOHN Poem Source First Line: The street comes to him Subject(s): Blindness; Prisons And Prisoners BLIND MAN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will not see those first golden notches Last Line: Those trembling eclipses of light Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear children, see I'm old and poor Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD Poem Source First Line: The blind man at his window-bars Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN NAVIGATES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By stars behind the daylight Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Blindness; Nature BLIND MAN TELLS HIS SECRET OF WINNING BRAWLS, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: When I was a kid, lying on my back, the flat Subject(s): Blindness BLIND MAN TOUCHES MY FACE AT THE OFFICE, by C. MATTHEW TUSA Poem Source First Line: He doesn't say a word Last Line: Something that no one else can see Subject(s): Blindness; Labor And Laborers BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three wags (whom some fastidious carpers Last Line: "out of your wages!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Blindness; Drinks & Drinking; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Wine BLIND MAN'S HOUSE, by PAUL KELLER Poem Source First Line: This was her father's couch in the house of her father Last Line: His daughter's footsteps pass down the hall, %loving her Subject(s): Blindness; Fathers And Daughters; Sex BLIND PEOPLE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the difference between the unlimited Last Line: Over the pavements of the raucous city Subject(s): Blindness BLIND SHEEP, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl Last Line: I am a sheep, and not an ass Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep BLIND TOILERS, by MARGUERITE RAY Poem Text First Line: It is not sad that they must ever toil Last Line: Dim grow his footprints on the sullen sod. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND WILLIAM'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand from my shadow where it goes Last Line: Is tamed white by time Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Blindness; Old Age BLIND!, by ALICE B. NEAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind, said you? Blind for life! Last Line: Yet trustfully my spirit looks to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLIND, YET MAKING MANY SEE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: She brought with her the freshness of the morn Last Line: Wherewith god starred the darkness of her eyes. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BLINDMAN'S CRIES, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: The eye, murderer, is not yet dead Last Line: Hear the deathknelling horn Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Blindness BLINDNESS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I never asked a blind man what he sees Last Line: Since we must see the ugly with the best. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blind Subject(s): Blindness; Schools; Inida; English In India; Visually Handicapped BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blin Subject(s): Blindness BORN BLIND, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: A blind boy lies on a bright white table Last Line: A thousand curious shards glinting Subject(s): Blindness CAOCH THE PIPER, by JOHN KEEGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One winter's day, long, long ago Last Line: God rest you! Caoch o'leary. Subject(s): Blindness; Music & Musicians; Visually Handicapped CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Blame us not, ah, blame us not, ye folk who love the sun Last Line: Only be blind forever, since ye cannot understand. Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Visually Handicapped; Childhood CHOEURK'S EYES, by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE Poem Source First Line: She had no choices. %always and forever Last Line: Until it is all her eyes will see %forever Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; War; Women CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god. Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History DAY OF ATONEMENT, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist says Last Line: When his paint will drip upward Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters DAY OR NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Again I wake and cry for light! Last Line: So bright these golden days! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Sleep; Visually Handicapped DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND GIRL, AT A FESTIVAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her, where the summer flowers Last Line: And glow with rapture's deathless ray. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Festivals; Visually Handicapped; Fairs; Pageants DER BLINDE JUNGE, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dam bellona Last Line: Upon a mouth-organ. Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped DIFFERENT GAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He broke his jaw, lost the sight of one eye Last Line: A different game then. Red and yellow cards today. Subject(s): Blindness; Fights; Silence; Violence DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god. Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness DOWN TO THE BONE, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist likes to visualize Last Line: He does expect some tourists Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters ELEGY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auvergne, auvergne, o wild and woful land Last Line: Burton -- a name that lives till fame be dead. Subject(s): Blindness; Death; England; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; English EPIGRAM ON ONE BORN BLIND, AND SO DEAD, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who (but some one like thee) could ever say Last Line: Gives thee a longer till the day of doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped FOR THE BLIND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will enter morning Last Line: Your eyes will open %with delight Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Vision FOR THE BLINDED SOLDIERS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that look on, with god's goodwill Last Line: We that look on? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Blindness; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War GABAEL, by ADRIEN MITHOUARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone gabael of sichem, blind from birth Last Line: Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies. Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Faces; God; Jesus Christ; Visually Handicapped GIFTS FROM THE SEA, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: In the name of freedom Last Line: Upstairs and hides under his bed Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters GOING BLIND, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: Trees get bare, brittle, blackgrackled Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat just like the rest at tea that day Last Line: She would no longer walk: for she would soar Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat just like the other ones at tea Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND, by ALEXANDRA SOCARIDES Poem Source First Line: In third grade, I went blind Last Line: What unforsaken power turned me back? Subject(s): Blindness; Children GOING BLIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the primal gloom Last Line: "the things unseen." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped GREETINGS FROM A BLIND DOG, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little pilgrim through a night Last Line: Happy greetings from us two! Subject(s): Animals; Blindness; Dogs; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Visually Handicapped GROWING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat, like all the rest of us, at tea Last Line: She would no longer walk her way, but fly. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped HANGING BLINDS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is a headrail, anyway -- and a valance Last Line: Drag the sun from where it hides behind earth's skirts, %and make it do the dance of light! Subject(s): Blindness; Privacy HE HAD A GOOD YEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While he was going blind. Autumnal light Last Line: He said, “he would see things this way.” Subject(s): Autumn; Blindness; God; Rainbows; Seasons; Fall; Visually Handicapped HELEN KELLER, by MARGUERITE BOUVARD Poem Source First Line: Inside the body is another Last Line: The world burgeoning through its fingers Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) HELEN KELLER, by KATHLEEN MILLAY Poem Text First Line: A bit more darkness than the rest Last Line: With feeling only? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped HELEN KELLER, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She never sees the sun transmute to gold Last Line: With symphonies beethoven never heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped HOW CAN I WRITE POEMS FOR HELEN KELLER?, by JUSABRO IWAMI Poem Text First Line: I must live in a bad, bad world Last Line: They cause fear! Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Fear; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom; Visually Handicapped HUGH STUART BOYD: HIS BLINDNESS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God would not let the spheric lights accost Last Line: Scarce plainer than heaven's angels on the wing. Subject(s): Blindness; Boyd, Hugh Stuart (1781-1848); Visually Handicapped I SAW A BLIND MAN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a blind man with his cane Last Line: I saw a blind man with his cane. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN STANDING THERE, by MARKEY SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: I know, I shouldn't have been standing there Last Line: For I just know he'd have acted differently if someone had told him I was blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped I'M YOUNG, AND IT IS EARLY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I'm young, and it is early to leave the world behind Last Line: The glad, the free, the busy -- for I am going blind. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped IN BLINDESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me her life to consecrate Last Line: Suffuses mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped IT IS MAY - AND I AM BLIND, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Source Subject(s): Blindness JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they removed the bandages Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness LIGHTLESS SUSAN, by ALEXANDER M. LACKEY Poem Text First Line: Softly through the ever-dark Last Line: Of her sky of prisoned night. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped LITTLE SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Born into this world to enlighten Last Line: For those who believe in the afterlife Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters MAN SELLING PENCILS OUTSIDE THE B. DALTON BOOKSTORE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I blink, but there he sits, unreal Last Line: Unless we speak, until we touch Subject(s): Blindness; Booksellers; Pity MILTON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So fair thy vision that the night Last Line: Had shut thee out from paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Visually Handicapped MIRACLE, by LAURA BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle's star, too brilliant for the beholding Last Line: Ride on the fringe of this rainbow while yet there is time. Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Miracles; Stars; Visually Handicapped MY BLINDNESS, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Oh blackened knight, murderer of my day Last Line: Without a cause, until I'm claimed by death? Subject(s): Black (color); Blindness; Death; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The MY MOTHER, by MABEL ROSE LEVY Poem Text First Line: Calm and serene, submissive to her fate Last Line: Guard well my little mother who is blind! Subject(s): Blindness; Mothers; Visually Handicapped NECESSARY ANGELS; POEMS IN THEIR YOUTH, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Text First Line: We stopped beside the road Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass. Variant Title(s): Breton-esque Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped OBLIQUE MUSCLE (MEDITATION ON A FAMOUS BLINDNESS), by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: When I consider how my light is spent... Last Line: Think of how your light is spent. Blink. It's enough Subject(s): Blindness; Life; Light OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS][OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: BLINDNESS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, give me no more counsel. Bid me not Last Line: That no man else, but I alone, must bear. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped OF HELEN KELLER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, without eyes, sees more than I who know Last Line: Your visions fade before her high, pure heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After these many years, circling near Subject(s): Blindness ONE FOR THE ROAD, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist paints like a driver Last Line: If it would make the trip smoother Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters ONE-EYE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that vacant day Last Line: Out of a quiet sky Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Blindness ORGAN SONGS: BLIND BARTIMEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As jesus went into jericho town Last Line: Tis he! I follow him! Subject(s): Blindness; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Visually Handicapped; Cures PARABLE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymity has a name Last Line: Which terror knows Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped PHYSICAL AND MORAL BLINDNESS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child whose eyes were never blest Last Line: Feeling the childly life beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Blindness; Middle East; Visually Handicapped; Near East; Levant PLAIN SERMONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a man - and envied him beside Last Line: For never having seen myself before! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Envy; Sermons; Visually Handicapped PLUTUS: THE GOD OF WEALTH REGAINS HIS SIGHT, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to the morn next to my gold Last Line: How I unwilling kept them company Subject(s): Blindness; Wealth POOR PETER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind peter piper used to play Last Line: Blind peter seems contented. Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Visually Handicapped POWER OF FAITH, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: The man on the phone says he is blind Last Line: You can see. Never mind the cost Subject(s): Blindness PRELUDE TO A VOLUME PRINTED IN RAISED LETTERS FOR THE BLIND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, left darkling in the long eclipse Last Line: A dewdrop fresh from heaven's own chalice hold. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped RENEGADE, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Blind %he could see through his tears Subject(s): Blindness SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BEAM OF THE PHARISEE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them yield who give glasses capable of focusing Last Line: By which he can see nothing at all (I speak the truth) Subject(s): Blindness SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BLIND MAN CONFESSING CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not cast your eyes on me, wild pharisee Last Line: He sees though blind; blind you are, though you [think you] see Subject(s): Blindness SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BLIND MAN IS HEALED BY THE WORD OF GOD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ, you had spoken - o sacred license of the word! Last Line: To our ears? Nay rather to our eyes have you spoken, o christ Subject(s): Blindness SACRED EPIGRAM: THE MAN BORN BLIND, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is he who could after the clouds of such a long night Last Line: Because it sees and because first of all it sees god Subject(s): Blindness SCALES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Scrupulous all his days, pat nally Last Line: As those who cannot see Subject(s): Blindness SHUT WINDOWS (FOR THE BRAILLE MAGAZINE), by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: When the outer eye grows dim Last Line: And every room is free to you and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Blindness; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology SIESTA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the fish of fire circles up and down Last Line: And carved out reason into faith Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Blindness; Faith; God; Prayer SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 83, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind from my birth Last Line: Where all joy-bells are ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Blindness; Happiness; Larks; Visually Handicapped; Joy; Delight; Skylarks SISYPHUS BLIND, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: I have imagined him always blind Last Line: Like a meteor burning up space Subject(s): Blindness; Sisyphus SONG TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAIS'D MY MISTRESS' BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder not, though I am blind Last Line: Then are you blinder far than I. Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Visually Handicapped SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my light is spent Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait." Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17 Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology SONNET: 22. TO THE SAME [CYRIACK SKINNER], by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear Last Line: Content, though blind, had I no better guide. Variant Title(s): "sonnet To Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness;to Cyriack Skinner (2);to Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness;""cyriack, This Three Years' Day These Eyes, Though Clear""; Subject(s): Blindness; Consolation; Skinner, Cyriack (1627-1700); Visually Handicapped STRAIN ON THE EYES, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Be as a child and come into my studio Last Line: Art doesn't come, he says, from the pursuit %of things out there Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters TEARS BELOW THE BELT, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Fear motivates the blind artist Last Line: In the belly button of the blind artist %fills with tears Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL-GREENE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight" Last Line: "all with his fair lady, the pretty bessee" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the din of cars and automobiles Last Line: "there never shall be eyes for me again?" Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND BEGGAR, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands, a patient figure, where the crowd Last Line: Pleading in his reproachful misery. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND BOXER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He goes with basket and slow feet Last Line: Thy working face and pity thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Boxing & Boxers; Cowardice; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND BOY, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, say what is that thing called light Last Line: Although a poor blind boy. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND BOY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, say what is that thing called light Last Line: Although a poor blind boy! Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND BOY'S PRANKS, by WILLIAM THOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Men grew sae cauld, maids sae unkind Last Line: An' herds o' common men! Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND DOG OF VENICE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tartar sauce lesson was misunderstood Last Line: Reveal the gentleman lawn reclining in a gesture of crassness. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND GIRL, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose Last Line: If the odor of the roses and the better things were there. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLIND GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might see his face to-day! Last Line: Of blindness -- both for him and her. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Faces; Love; Separation; Isolation; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND HIGHLAND BOY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we are tired of boisterous joy Last Line: And how he was preserved. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND LADY, by MAX JACOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blind lady with bloodshot eyes chooses her expressions Last Line: So she'll laugh and she'll laugh and then she'll bellow. Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLIND MAN, by FLOY BOYER Poem Text First Line: A youth, with nature's candles long burnt out Last Line: Who hurry on, unheedful of the blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Nature; Youth; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As haggard as an owl by day, / a blind man through the town doth stray Last Line: Shall see distinctly in the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The THE BLIND MAN, by NAZHUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All dumbly you'd behold Last Line: There sways a slender bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Nazhun Al-garnatiya Bint Al-qulai’iy Subject(s): Al-kutandi; Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Text First Line: I see a blind man every day Last Line: And guide us on our way. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to be blind! Last Line: And darkness everywhere I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN'S MORNING, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping he is not blind Last Line: "to thy night." Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND MAN'S SONG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am blind, you out there. That is a curse Last Line: And that tempts one to show mercy Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND PEDLAR, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand alone through each long day Last Line: Are creased in purple laughter! Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Blindness; Peddling & Peddlers; World War I; Visually Handicapped; First World War THE BLIND POET, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a humble london room Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND POET, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poem Text 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 THE BLIND ROWER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And since he rowed his father home Last Line: The dead, who steered his blind son home. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND SHEEP, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND TRAVELER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poor blind man was traveling one day Last Line: Bring us, and give us everlasting life. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dumb child and the blind child Last Line: From their head to their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a barren tree before Last Line: In the darkness of the blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Blindness; Night; Solitude; Trees; Visually Handicapped; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE DARK BLOT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere Last Line: Can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Blindness; Vision; Visually Handicapped THE DAUGHTER OF THE BLIND, by ANNE M. F. ANNAN Poem Text First Line: My father dear! 'tis sweet to me Last Line: To lure me from your side! Alternate Author Name(s): Buchanan, Anne M. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: FOR A BLIND BEGGAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Like homer's self, or belisarius blind Last Line: He cannot see; god watches in his stead. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE GREAT JOKESMITH, by ARTHUR SPINGARN Poem Text First Line: Those blind to beauty oft have brightest eyes Last Line: I wonder why, I wonder why? Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth; Visually Handicapped THE HERM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind I know with senses rising from fern and tree Last Line: Heaven's swift-winged fiat, earth's primeval monolith. Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Soul; Visually Handicapped THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness THE LUCKLESS MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fellow say, this morn, 'I've had Last Line: Luck he's had, since he was but a knee-high lad! Subject(s): Blindness; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE MESSAGE-BEARER, by JOHN D. BARRY Poem Text First Line: Blind, she helps us all to see Last Line: Transmuting loss to gain! Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Praise; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery THE PURBLIND PRAISES THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cannot know, the keen of sight Last Line: That he remembers me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; God; Praise; Trees; Visually Handicapped THE SIGHTLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night a crash Last Line: And our night is lost in the greater night. Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day. Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE TWO BLIND MEN (NEAPOLITAN DIALECT), by SALVATORE DI GIACOMO Poem Text First Line: Tell me one thing. Have you, within your brain Last Line: Shone in the sky, the sun that is of gold. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE WIND IS BLIND, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From those blind uses of the slave Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Samson; Blindness THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the blind man and his personal dark Subject(s): Blindness; Homeless; City & Town Life; Visually Handicapped TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy? Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are thy dreams dark? Or is the light Last Line: A kindling radiance appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Blindness; Sleep; Infants; Visually Handicapped TO A BLIND MAN IN LOVE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lover, than love more blind, whose bold thoughts dare Last Line: Could guard, hop'st thou to keep thine, who hast none? Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Visually Handicapped TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime TO HIM IT COMES EASY, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The blind artist sees through everybody and everything Last Line: He gulps the wine down and spills half of it in his beard Subject(s): Blindness; Paintings And Painters TO MILTON -- BLIND, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who said suddenly, let there be light! Last Line: That brings this world out of the woe to bliss. Subject(s): Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Visually Handicapped TO MISTRESS PHILIP SIDNEY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must believe some miracles still be Last Line: But, in your love, made all his servants wise. Subject(s): Blindness; Sidney, Mistress Philip (1594-1620); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Visually Handicapped TO MY FATHER - BLIND, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: A stroke of darkness cuts thy life in twain Last Line: Holds thy confiding hand and leads thee on. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped TO ONE THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lawrence, what though the world be growing dark Last Line: He needs no eyes who is a shining light! Subject(s): Blindness; Comfort; God; Prayer; Visually Handicapped TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE VOICE OF ONE BLIND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind, ah! Blind - it has come upon me now Last Line: I am come nearer now. Subject(s): Blindness; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples TURN ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blind boy is looking for his sight Last Line: And turn on the light Subject(s): Blindness; Boys; Explorers UNBLINDING, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: When I think of my fear Last Line: One flick of a surgeon's knife %struck long-idle retinas %into perfect sight Subject(s): Blindness; Fear; Surgery WHAT LIES IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR EYES?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: What lies in the depths Last Line: Because you are a butterfly luminous in the mirrors Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners; Terror WHAT THE BLIND MAN SAW, by MARK R. LITTLETON Poem Source First Line: As he lay dying, he told me Last Line: I will light it soon, %but not yet Subject(s): Blindness; Candles; Death WILLIAM BLAKE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to the desert of london town Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blindness YOU LIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Vertical light Last Line: And I, the black, the blind, the deaf, the dumb horizontal shadow Subject(s): Blindness |
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