Me let the world disparage and despise –
As one unfettered with its gilded chains,
As one untempted by its sordid gains,
Its pleasant vice, its profitable lies;
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise
The rebel spirit surging in my veins,
Let the Law deal me penalties and pains
And make me hideous in my neighbours’ eyes.
But let me fall not in mine own esteem,
By poor deceit or selfish greed debased.
Let me be clean from secret stain and shame,
Know myself true, though false as hell I seem –
Know myself worthy, howsoe’er disgraced –
Know myself right, though every tongue should blame.
A few random poems:
- The Meaning of Music by Mercedes Madrigal
- Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- Владислав Ходасевич – Опять во тьме. У наших ног
- Владимир Орлов – Что нельзя купить
- A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army by William Topaz McGonagall
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Языков – Песня (Пусть свободны и легки)
- Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
- Senses by Rabindranath Tagore
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Hyperion. Book I poem – John Keats poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Слышишь, звякнул бубенцами
- Николай Глазков – Покуда карты не раскрыты
- Poem65
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.