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 

• Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif by Poetry In English
• Men by Maya Angelou by Poetry In English
• Little Clock by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Let me Count the Poets Left by Michael K. Shiu by Poetry In English
• Last Turn Of The Morning Carousel/Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel by Matthew Abuelo by Poetry In English
• kaleidoscopic whorled wide web. by matthew scott harris by Poetry In English
• Kailangan ko’y Yakap by Melissa Sazon Flores by Poetry In English
• It Asked a Crumb of Me by Michael K. Shiu by Poetry In English
• Insomniac by Maya Angelou by Poetry In English
• initial mother’s day eve by matthew scott harris by Poetry In English
• In the Park by Maxine Kumin by Poetry In English
• Illusion by Mercedes Madrigal by Poetry In English
• I Know From my Bed by Michael Lee Johnson by Poetry In English
• Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy by Poetry In English
• How Am I? by Matt Bohart by Poetry In English
• Haunted by you by Melissa Skelton by Poetry In English
• Forced by Mayank Sharma by Poetry In English
• Forbidden Fruit by Michael Lally by Poetry In English
• Follies of War by Michael Levy by Poetry In English
• Eve- Song by Mary Gilmore by Poetry In English

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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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