Careful Words

intercourse (n.)

intercourse (v.)

Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all

The dreary intercourse of daily life.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,

And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Eloisa to Abelard. Line 57.