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:
- After Schiller by Thomas Hardy
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
- To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-Day poem – Alexander Pope
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Scented Herbage of My Breast. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Песни (Счастлив, кому судьбою дан)
- Степан Щипачев – Зрение
- The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
- The Sleepers by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Е. А. Карлгоф
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Близ берегов
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия (Он жил в сем мире для того)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Про королевское шествие
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
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
- Starlight
- Song Of The Peri
- Song Of The Parao Camping Ground
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Ramesram Temple Girl
- Song Of Khan Zada
- Song Of Jasoda
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- Song By Gulbaz
- Sleep
- Shivratri The Night Of Shiva While The Procession Passed At Ramesram
- Sher Afzul
- Sea Song
- Sampan Song
- Rutland Gate
- Reverie Zahir U Din
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
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.