A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
O if it’s true that in the night,
When rest the living in their havens
And liquid rays of lunar light
Glide down on tombstones from the heavens,
O if it’s true that still and bare
Are then the graves until aurora —
I call the shade, I wait for Laura:
To me, my friend, appear, appear!
Beloved shadow, come to me
As at our parting — wintry, ashen
In your last minutes’ agony;
Emerge in any form or fashion:
A distant star across the sphere,
A gentle sound, a puff of air or
The most appalling wraith of terror,
I care not how: appear, appear!..
I call you — not to speak my scorn
Of people whose ill-fated malice
Has killed my friend, and not to learn
The secrets of the nether-palace,
And not because a doubt may tear
My heart at times… but as I suffer,
I want to say that still I love her,
That still I’m yours: appear, appear!

A few random poems:
- I am Ireland by Patrick Pearse
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Sweet Stay-at-Home by William Henry Davies
- At The Wedding March poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! by Walt Whitman
- The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
- The Cat in the Kitchen by Robert Bly
- From The Flats. by Sidney Lanier
- Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
- Fears In Solitude by Samuel Coleridge
- When Love Is Over
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
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
- In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- In Imitation of Chaucer poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Eloisa to Abelard poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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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.