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.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Untitled XIX by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XIII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XI by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled X by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled VIII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled VII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled V by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled IX by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled IV by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled III by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled II by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled I by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Love Compared To A Game Of Tables by William Strode by William Strode
• Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode by William Strode
• Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode by William Strode
• Justification by William Strode by William Strode
• Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode by William Strode
• William Strode – William Strode by William Strode

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works