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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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 

• A Sigh In The Night by Ada Cambridge
• A Sermon by Ada Cambridge
• A Prayer by Ada Cambridge
• A Dream Of Venice by Ada Cambridge
• A Supplication by Abraham Cowley
• Written Juice Lemon by Abraham Cowley
• Written In Juice Of Lemon by Abraham Cowley
• Wit by Abraham Cowley
• Welcome by Abraham Cowley
• Vote Excerpt by Abraham Cowley
• Usurpation by Abraham Cowley
• Tree Knowledge by Abraham Cowley
• To The Royal Society by Abraham Cowley
• To The Lord Falkland by Abraham Cowley
• To Sir William Davenant by Abraham Cowley
• Thisbes Song by Abraham Cowley
• The Wish by Abraham Cowley
• The Welcome by Abraham Cowley
• The Vote Excerpt by Abraham Cowley
• The Usurpation by Abraham Cowley

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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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