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:
- Italy poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Couplet poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- How To Raise Money For Your High School Study Abroad Experience
- Омар Хайям – О доколе ты по свету будешь кружить
- September Rain by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Show me by Rixa White
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
- Михаил Лермонтов – Юнкерская молитва
- Владимир Британишский – Багульник, ельник, изволоки, взгорья
- Light by Rabindranath Tagore
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
- Владимир Гиппиус – Друг, скажу тебе несказанное
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.