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:
- Song Of The Master And Boatswain by W H Auden
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Британишский – От низменного к неземному
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Могила
- “Wonkavite…” by Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- The Infernal Regions
- Song—The Birks of Aberfeldy by Robert Burns
- Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
- Владислав Ходасевич – Новый год
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.