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:
- My impure god and I by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Юнна Мориц – Бетани
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- Lamia. Part I poem – John Keats poems
- Aquamarine Butterfly by Nina Gabriel
- Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts by William Shakespeare
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Омар Хайям – Был бы я благочестьем прославиться рад
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- Tractor by Ted Hughes
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.