Prospective Immigrants Please Note

A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

Either you will

go through this door

or you will not go through.

If you go through

there is always the risk

of remembering your name.

Things look at you doubly

and you must look back

and let them happen.

If you do not go through

it is possible

to live worthily

to maintain your attitudes

to hold your position

to die bravely

but much will blind you,

much will evade you,

at what cost who knows?

The door itself

makes no promises.

It is only a door.

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Poems in English 

• Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper by William Cowper
• By Philemon by William Cowper by William Cowper
• By Moschus by William Cowper by William Cowper
• By Heraclides by William Cowper by William Cowper
• By Callimachus by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Apology to Delia by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper by William Cowper
• Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Epitaph by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper

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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