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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько чудес за туманами кроется
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- Nutting by William Wordsworth
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хлебопечение
- Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
- Зинаида Александрова – Белочка
- Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders
- Woman And The Weed poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
- Иван Киуру – Теленок Леня
- Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Died of Wounds by Siegfried Sassoon
- Attitude: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall by S. K. Kelen
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Гавриил Державин – К Анжелике Кауфман
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.