A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that’s beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.
In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.
Then came a moment of reinessance,
I looked up – you again are there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that’s beautiful and rare

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 - The Homestead by William Barnes
 - Tony Harrison – Tony Harrison
 - The Deeper Shadow by Pierre Reverdy
 - Stanzas Written In My Pocket Copy Of Thomson’s “Castle Of Indolence” by William Wordsworth
 - Motel Pool by P. K. Page
 - Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
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 - Омар Хайям – Не смешно ли весь век по копейке копить
 - dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
 - Владимир Солоухин – У моря
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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первый из пяти
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
 - Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
 - Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьские частушки
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
 - Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
 - Владимир Маяковский – Общее руководство для начинающих подхалим
 - Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
 - Облако в штанах – Владимир Маяковский: читать поэму онлайн, текст стихотворения полностью – Стихи Poetry Monster
 - Владимир Маяковский – О том, как у Керзона с обедом разрасталась аппетитов зона
 - Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
 - Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
 - Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
 - Владимир Маяковский – О чем в наступающем думаем году мы
 
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Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
	
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1937) was a Russian poet, playwright and prose writer, founder of the realistic trend in Russian literature, literary critic and theorist of literature, historian, publicist, journalist; one of the most important cultural figures in Russia in the first third of the 19th century.