A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Bound for your distant home
you were leaving alien lands.
In an hour as sad as I’ve known
I wept over your hands.
My hands were numb and cold,
still trying to restrain
you, whom my hurt told
never to end this pain.
But you snatched your lips away
from our bitterest kiss.
You invoked another place
than the dismal exile of this.
You said, ‘When we meet again,
in the shadow of olive-trees,
we shall kiss, in a love without pain,
under cloudless infinities.’
But there, alas, where the sky
shines with blue radiance,
where olive-tree shadows lie
on the waters glittering dance,
your beauty, your suffering,
are lost in eternity.
But the sweet kiss of our meeting …
I wait for it: you owe it me …
A few random poems:
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Ольга Седакова – Прибавления к “Старым песням”
- Why Me? by Michael Yuan
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
- Fidele by William Shakespeare
- Peaceful Battles by Shekhar Srinivasan
- night_piece.html
- Николай Карамзин – Из письма к И. И. Дмитриеву (Что ж может быть любви и счастия быстрее)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- The Image Of Delight by William Ellery Leonard
- Владимир Британишский – Не поселятся ли олени
- Baby’s Way by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Птичка божия
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
- A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
- A Soft Day by Winifred Mary Letts
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Spires Of Oxford by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Harbour by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Deserter by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
- Synge’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Easter Snow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Chaplain To The Forces by Winifred Mary Letts
- Casualty by Winifred Mary Letts
- And She is Spoke by Winifred Mary Letts
- A Dog’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
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.