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:
- On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Niobe in Distress by Phillis Wheatley
- Нина Воронель – Бабий стих
- In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- Омар Хайям – Если ты не впадаешь в молитвенный раж
- Владимир Британишский – Матери моей
- The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- The Meeting by Sara Teasdale
- Юрий Левитанский – Мое поколение
- Валерий Брюсов – Идеал
- The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про первые ряды
- Honor Among Scamps by Vachel Lindsay
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.