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 

• The Eagle That is Forgotten by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Cornfields by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The City That Will Not Repent by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Chinese Nightingale by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Booker Washington Trilogy by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Beggar’s Valentine by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Bankrupt Peace-Maker by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Amaranth by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Sweethearts of the Year by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Sweet Briars of the Stairways by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Sunshine by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Star of My Heart by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• St. Francis of Assisi by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Shakespeare by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

More external links (open in a new tab):

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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.

 

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