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 

• Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• Lulu by Manolo Arriola by Poetry In English
• Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta by Poetry In English
• In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern by Poetry In English
• Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• I Didn’t Apologize to the Well by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• I Want To Write by Margaret Walker by Poetry In English
• Hora Cero by Manolo Arriola by Poetry In English
• Heaven, an envious home by Mahak Raithatha S by Poetry In English
• He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish by Poetry In English
• Hate Survives by Mac McGovern by Poetry In English
• Halloween by Mac Hammond by Poetry In English
• Frijolita by Manolo Arriola by Poetry In English
• FREEDOM by Mac McGovern by Poetry In English
• For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek by Poetry In English
• FLORECER by Manolo Arriola 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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