A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
What’s friendship? The hangover’s faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.

A few random poems:
- Вера Павлова – Покамест я всем детям тётя
- Николай Гумилев – Как труп, бессилен небосклон
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- A Love By The Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. by Walt Whitman
- Come From The Daisied Meadows by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Waking In March by Philip Levine
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- The Gardener XLVIII: Free Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Statistic by Shivam Pandya
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму
- Song For A Revolutionary Love by Sylvia Plath
- Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
- Crapulous Impression poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Корнилов – Лермонтов
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
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- The White Pall Of Peace poem – Alfred Austin
- The Spring-Time, O The Spring–Time poem – Alfred Austin
- “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- The Season poem – Alfred Austin
- The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- The Owl And The Lark poem – Alfred Austin
- The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin
- The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin
- “The lark confinèd in his cage” poem – Alfred Austin
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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.