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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Мне не поведать о моей утрате
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- The Fable by Yvor Winters
- The Deserted House poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Ghost Girl by P.J.Reed
- The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk by Rabindranath Tagore
- A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK by Robert Herrick
- Омар Хайям – Друг, умей от пустой суеты отличать
- Rhymes for Gloriana by Vachel Lindsay
- Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth
- Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling
- The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns
- Returned To Say by William Stafford
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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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.