<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567536" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Reading Poems Of Mangan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many of his verses tell of his great sadness<br>The hardships through life he had to endure<br>He lived in the hungry years of the great famine<br>And he knew what it was like to be poor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father James a Limerick man from Shanagolden<br>'About that place there is a famous song'<br>And his mother Catharine Smith from Fishamble Street in Dublin<br>Quite poor and to poor kindred she belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But circumstance of birth doesn't seem to hinder genius<br>Though wisdom from the poor is seldom quote<br>And though Mangan's verse today may seem neglected<br>He surely was a major Irish poet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never had his poems published in England<br>And outside of Ireland he's almost unknown<br>But his 'Dark Rosaleen' perhaps will live forever<br>And it took a genius to write such a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He himself said Dark Rosaleen was from the Irish of Costello<br>And that into English 'Roisin Duibh' he did translate<br>But many critics say the poem is quite original<br>And that in any case it lives as something great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of Ireland's greatest poets James Clarence Mangan<br>But in the literary World a near forgotten name<br>And I have my doubts if there were many better<br>And he is worthy of a greater fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567536" data-title="On Reading Poems Of Mangan de Francis Duggan" data-description="Many of his verses tell of his great sadness The hardships through life he had to endure He lived in the hungry years of the great famine And he knew what it was like to be poor. His father James a Limerick man from Shanagolden 'About that place ..."></div> </div> </div>

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