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 

• Says. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Savantism. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Runner, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Rise, O Days. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Respondez! by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Recorders Ages Hence. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Reconciliation. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prayer of Columbus. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prairie States, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Prairie-Grass Dividing, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Portals. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

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