Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
Cats’ meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.
Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge.

We then, at first encounter, should be silent;
Not court the cortex but the epidermis;
Not work from inside out but outside in;
Discover each other’s flesh, its scent and texture;
Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends,
The hands, the hair; before the inept lips open.

Instead of which we are resonant, explicit.
Our words like windows intercept our meaning.
Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly
Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush.
Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated.
Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy …
While always under all, but interrupted,
Antennae stretch … waver … and almost … touch.

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Poems in English 

• To Delia by William Cowper by William Cowper
• To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Silkworm by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Rose by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Perfect Sacrifice by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Parrot by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Lily And The Rose by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Ice Palace by William Cowper by William Cowper
• The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Repose In God by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper by William Cowper

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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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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