A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
A lot of us were on the bark:
Some framed a sail for windy weather,
The others strongly and together
Moved oars. In silence sunk,
Keeping a rudder, strong and clever,
The skipper drove the heavy skiff;
And I — with careless belief —
I sang for sailors… . But the stiff
Whirl smashed at once the waters’ favor…
All dead — the captain and his guard! —
But I, the enigmatic bard,
Was thrown to the shore alone.
I sing the former anthems, yet,
And dry my mantle, torn and wet,
In beams of sun under a stone.
A few random poems:
- The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire by William Barnes
- Владимир Костров – В керосиновой лампе
- The Queen’s Marie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Before The Game by Vasko Popa
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
- Robert Burns: Epigram On A Country Laird,: not quite so wise as Solomon.
- I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by Roald Dahl
- Ольга Берггольц – Не может быть, чтоб жили мы напрасно
- Sonnet CXIV by William Shakespeare
- Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сорняков, когда созреют
- The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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.