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.

A few random poems:
- Dungeon by Rabindranath Tagore
- Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper
- STEPPING OUT by Satish Verma
- Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly by Wallace Stevens
- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- Synge’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Still Life by Reena Ribalow
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats
- Big Grab by Tony Hoagland
- A Farewell To Youth poem – Alfred Austin
- On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills by Yvor Winters
- All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath
- eclipse_of_love.html
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
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
More external links (open in a new tab):
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.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.