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 

• Sonnet VII. To Solitude poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet VI. To G. A. W. poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet V. To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Spenser poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Sleep poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Homer poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet To Byron poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. The Day Is Gone poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. On The Sea poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. On Peace poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Sonnet. On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’ poem – John Keats poems by John Keats

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Doska or the Board – write anything

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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

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