Honour

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.

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Poems in English 

• Mother’s Death 1981 by Michael S Wilson by Poetry In English
• Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Migration of the Mind by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary by Poetry In English
• Matrimony by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• March on, Yes! by Miles by Poetry In English
• Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary by Poetry In English
• Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez by Poetry In English
• Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• Life of Paradoxes by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Languaculture by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• (Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• If I Got You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• I Wish This Lovely Time Never Ends by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

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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.

 

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