On Pilgrimage

Oh, youthful bearer of my palanquin,

Thy glossy hair lies loosened on thy neck,

The “tears of labour” gem thy velvet skin,

Whose even texture knows no other fleck.

Thy slender shoulder strains beneath my weight;

Too fair thou art for work, sweet slave of mine.

Would that this idle breast, reversing fate,

A willing serf to love, supported thine!

I smell the savage scent of sun-warmed fur

Close in the Jungle, musky, hot and sweet.–

The air comes from thy shoulder, even as myrrh,

Would we were as the panthers, free to meet.

The Temple road is steep; I grieve to see

Thy slender ankles bruised among the clods.

Oh, my Beloved, if I might worship thee!

Beauty is greater far than all the Gods.

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Poems in English 

• No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• Lying Down by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• Identity of Images by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
• by Леон Тоом
• Zero by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• Water Music by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Way by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Warning by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Rain by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Mirror by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Innocence by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Conspiracy by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• The Carnival by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• Song by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• Something by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• Other by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely
• Myself by Robert Creeley by Robert Creely

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.

 

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