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:
- A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy
- Reaping poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Друзья
- The Tree of Scarlet Berries poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Семик
- Николай Гумилев – Когда спокойно так и равнодушно мы
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- Life Of a Broke Person by Russell James
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- Lines on the Fall of Fyers by Robert Burns
- Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare
- Malmaison poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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.