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:
- Her smile by Vladimir Marku
- Олег Бундур – Вовка дразнит Свету
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- The Tears In Cupid’s Eyes by Tupac Shakur
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- lovers in nature by Raj Arumugam
- Игорь Северянин – Sirel
- Flowers Of The Dust by John Oxenham
- We Are To Play The Game Of Death by Rabindranath Tagore
- In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope
- An Epigram From Homer by William Cowper
- My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu
- Olney Hymn 7: Vanity of the World by William Cowper
- Thinking For Berky 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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.