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 

• Limericks by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• It is a Show by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Haiku by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• Forgotten Promises by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Everlasting Wander by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Drowned in Illusion by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• Dropping Truth on That Pretty Little Head by Rob Leatherman Sr. by Poetry In English
• Clinic by Rob Leatherman Sr. by Poetry In English
• An Untold Love by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Wandering Knight by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Slight Change by Rixa White by Poetry In English
• A Perfect World by Robby Charters by Poetry In English
• Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass by Poetry In English
• Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly by Poetry In English
• The Song of the Borderguard by Robert Duncan by Poetry In English
• The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos by Poetry In English
• The Cat in the Kitchen by Robert Bly by Poetry In English

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