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 

• For Sale by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Father Of A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Enter This Deserted House by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Dreadful by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Don’t Give A Dose To The One You Love Most by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Dirty Ol’ Me by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Dance To It by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Crouchin’ On The Outside by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Crocodile’s Toothache by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Come Skating by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Come After Jinny by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Colors by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Cloudy Sky by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Clarence by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Channels by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Changing Of The Seasons by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Captain Hook by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
• Bury Me In My Shades by Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein

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