Poor James Clarence Mangan

Though he lived and died in poverty he remains as one of literary note Poor James Clarence Mangan the great Irish poet One who did not have children or a partner or wife He died of tuberculosis in eighteen forty nine on his forty sixth year of life In the famine years in Ireland when many of malnutrition died Poor James Clarence Mangan the poet did not have luck on his side Many of the poems he did write are famous today With words the master wordsmith he did have a way To live poor and hungry was his reward for literary fame Yet in Ireland his lives as a great poetic name Of reading his great poems one could never tire Masterpieces such as Dark Rosaleen, A Vision Of Connaught and O Husseys Ode To The Maguire One of Ireland's all time great poets as most would agree Yet he died as he lived in extreme poverty.