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:
- Avenue In Savernake Forest by William Lisle Bowles
- Василий Жуковский – Деревенский сторож в полночь
- Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- The Coronet poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Костров – Закат приморский умирает
- These Fought in Any Case poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- Федор Сологуб – Я иду путём опасным
- Blake’s Victory poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Sussex by Rudyard Kipling
- Not Intrigued With Evening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Омар Хайям – Друзей поменьше
- Weak by Tanisha Avarsekar
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.