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:
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – На море
- The Voice by Sara Teasdale
- Prelude by Shaunna Harper
- The Window
- To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems
- Fareweel To A’Our Scottish Fame by Robert Burns
- I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 5. by William Cowper
- Sonnet Xiii
- The Leaders Of The Crowd by William Butler Yeats
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Гавриил Державин – Жан Расин. Рассказ Терамена
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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Поэт
- Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пир в доме Бомбеева
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пекарня
- Николай Заболоцкий – Оттепель
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осенний клен
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- Николай Заболоцкий – Одиссей и Сирены
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обед
- Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночное гулянье
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночь в лесу
- Николай Заболоцкий – Неудачник
- Николай Заболоцкий – Небесная Севилья
- Николай Заболоцкий – Народный дом
- Николай Заболоцкий – Начало зимы
- Николай Заболоцкий – На закате
- Николай Заболоцкий – На рынке
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.