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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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Betrayal poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker by Poetry In English
• Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton by Poetry In English
• Ballad Of The Skeletons poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• About Face poem – Alice Fulton by Poetry In English
• A winning lot by Poetry In English
• 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Why? by Alexander Pope
• Where Are You? by Alexander Pope
• Tell Me by Alexander Pope
• Teacher by Alexander Pope
• Sleep by Alexander Pope
• Intruder by Alexander Pope
• Inside/Outside The Window by Alexander Pope
• Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• Upon The Hills Of Georgia poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин
• To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin by Александр Пушкин

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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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.

 

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