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:
- Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
- Island-Hearth by M. Ivana Trevisani Bach
- Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli
- Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
- Salutation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Василий Тредиаковский – В белости ее румяной
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
- Владимир Набоков – Воскресение мёртвых
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – Утро вечера мудренее
- Robert Burns: O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart :
- A Poet by Thomas Hardy
- Как тамада я выступаю в роли теоретика
- Илона Грошева – Мечтается Алине
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.