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:
- Son Of A Scoundrel by Shel Silverstein
- Огюст Барбье – Хвала Хафизу
- The Gardener IV: Ah Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- Федор Сологуб – Сладко мечтается мне
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
- Casualty by Winifred Mary Letts
- Вера Павлова – Трогающему грудь
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare
- The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif
- There was a Child went Forth. by Walt Whitman
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.