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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an'
Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


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


BLACK LIGHTNING, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blind girl
Last Line: Lightning.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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!, 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


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


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


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


CRIPPLE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when I saw a cripple
Last Line: The clear silent processional of stars.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind!
Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race!
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


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


DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark
Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come?
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War


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


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 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


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


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 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


HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted
Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


HUNCHBACK GIRL: SHE THINKS OF HEAVEN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place
Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


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


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 9. CHANT FOR A STUMPED TOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He may be lame
Last Line: He's dear to me
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped;handicaps;physically Challenged;cripples


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


MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How will he hear the bell at school
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


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


OG MANDINO, by GEORGE BOND    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: Today, upon a bus
Last Line: I’m blessed, indeed! The world is mine!
Subject(s): Blessings; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


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


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


RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more'
Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness


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


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


SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an ancient england in the new
Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


STUMPFOOT ON 42ND STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A negro sprouts from the pavement like an asparagus
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


SWITCH-HITTERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many home runs / mickey mantle hit
Last Line: Up and over the fence, a home run
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said
Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me."
Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city
Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind.
Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse
Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE CRIPPLED GIRL, THE ROSE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was as if a flower bloomed as if
Subject(s): Roses; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 FREAKS AT SPURGIN ROAD FIELD, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dim boy claps because the others clap
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow
Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 LAME CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He passed along our village street
Last Line: Along his crippled years!
Subject(s): Children; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out
Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined.
Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE LITTLE CRIPPLE'S COMPLAINT, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a helpless cripple child
Last Line: Leaning in my easy-chair.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts
Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming
Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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 SPECIAL DARLING, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the grassy lane one day
Last Line: Such is my hope and prayer.
Subject(s): Handicapped; Children; God


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


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 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


TO THE DEFORMED X.R., by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As scriveners sometime delight to see
Last Line: Even hated by thy nurse deformity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


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


UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear
Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think
Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair.
Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples