A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Sable clouds by tempest driven,
Snowflakes whirling in the gales,
Hark–it sounds like grim wolves howling,
Hark–now like a child it wails!
Creeping through the rustling straw thatch,
Rattling on the mortared walls,
Like some weary wanderer knocking–
On the lowly pane it falls.
Fearsome darkness fills the kitchen,
Drear and lonely our retreat,
Speak a word and break the silence,
Dearest little Mother, sweet!
Has the moaning of the tempest
Closed thine eyelids wearily?
Has the spinning wheel’s soft whirring
Hummed a cradle song to thee?
Sweetheart of my youthful Springtime,
Thou true-souled companion dear–
Let us drink! Away with sadness!
Wine will fill our hearts with cheer.
Sing the song how free and careless
Birds live in a distant land–
Sing the song of maids at morning
Meeting by the brook’s clear strand!
Sable clouds by tempest driven,
Snowflakes whirling in the gales,
Hark–it sounds like grim wolves howling,
Hark–now like a child it wails!
Sweetheart of my youthful Springtime,
Thou true-souled companion dear,
Let us drink! Away with sadness!
Wine will fill our hearts with cheer!
A few random poems:
- Николай Языков – Песнь баяна (Люблю смотреть на месяц ясной)
- The Ballad Of Moll Magee by William Butler Yeats
- Everything by Philip Levine
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Костров – Душа, не кайся и не майся
- After A Journey by Thomas Hardy
- Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник
- Dog racing
- Christopher Found poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Иван Киуру – От северной половины земного шара
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
- When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before Dawn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Aubade poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Aquarium poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
More external links (open in a new tab):
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.
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.