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:
- Константин Бальмонт – Что достойно, что бесчестно
- Владимир Британишский – Кваренги
- The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
- Владислав Ходасевич – Обо всем в одних стихах не скажешь
- Ольга Седакова – Две книги я несу
- An Ode to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- The Flight by Sara Teasdale
- Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- TIRELESSLY by Satish Verma
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам нравится есть?.. (РОСТА №528)
- Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
- Альфред де Мюссе – Люси
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.