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:
- Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло
- Farewell to London poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Чупров – Вечером поздним потянет к Печоре
- Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- My Mind Keeps Movin’ by Shel Silverstein
- If I could tell you by W. H. Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живу я в лучшем из миров
- Tempest poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Огюст Барбье – Идол
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- To Elizabeth Ward Perkins poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- A Tulip Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.