Stairs fly as straight as hawks;
Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
At a ledge to poise their wings before relaunching.
Stairs sway at the height of their flight
Like a melody in Tristan;
Or swoop to the ground with glad spread of their feathers
Before they close them.

They curiously investigate
The shells of buildings,
A hollow core,
Shell in a shell.

Useless to produce their path to infinity
Or turn it to a moral symbol,
For their flight is ambiguous, upwards or downwards as you please;
Their fountain is frozen,
Their concertina is silent.

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Poems in English 

• A Scot To Jeanne D’Arc poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Young Love poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon An Eunuch; A Poet. Fragment poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Translated poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• to_his_coy_mistress.html by Andrew Marvell
• To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To Christina, Queen of Sweden poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Thoughts in a Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Unfortunate Lover poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Mower’s Song poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Mower To The Glo-Worms poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell

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)

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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.

 

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