A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
I watch Inesilla
Thy window beneath,
Deep slumbers the villa
In night’s dusky sheath.
Enamoured I linger,
Close mantled, for thee–
With sword and with guitar,
O look once on me!
Art sleeping? Wilt wake thee
Guitar tones so light?
The argus-eyed greybeard
My swift sword shall smite.
The ladder of ropes
Throw me fearlessly now!
Dost falter? Hast thou, Sweet,
Been false to thy vow?
I watch Inesilla
Thy window beneath,
Deep slumbers the villa
In night’s dusky sheath!
A few random poems:
- Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley
- A Friend’s Illness by William Butler Yeats
- Огюст Барбье – Лев
- Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
- Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
- Pomona by William Morris
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грустная песня о Ванечке
- Poem on Pastoral Poetry by Robert Burns
- Sonnet CXLIII by William Shakespeare
- Birdsong by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тюрьме Таганской нас стало мало
- Владимир Гиппиус – Закон чего? – закона нет
- Come Into The Garden, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- At The Last Watch by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- For Sale by Shel Silverstein
- Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein
- Father Of A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein
- Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein
- Enter This Deserted House by Shel Silverstein
- Dreadful by Shel Silverstein
- Don’t Give A Dose To The One You Love Most by Shel Silverstein
- Dirty Ol’ Me by Shel Silverstein
- Dance To It by Shel Silverstein
- Crouchin’ On The Outside by Shel Silverstein
- Crocodile’s Toothache by Shel Silverstein
- Come Skating by Shel Silverstein
- Come After Jinny by Shel Silverstein
- Colors by Shel Silverstein
- Cloudy Sky by Shel Silverstein
- Clarence by Shel Silverstein
- Channels by Shel Silverstein
- Changing Of The Seasons by Shel Silverstein
- Captain Hook by Shel Silverstein
- Bury Me In My Shades by Shel Silverstein
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Search engines:
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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.