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:
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- SURVIVAL by Satish Verma
- Why England Is Conservative poem – Alfred Austin
- A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup by William Butler Yeats
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Татаринову (Здорово, брат! Поставь сюда две чаши)
- A Meeting by Wendell Berry
- Song Of Jasoda
- Song Of Khan Zada
- Ольга Повещенко – Фотограф смотрит в объектив
- For Mêng Hao-jan by Wang Wei
- Шекспир – Я дорого ценю любовь твою – Сонет 87
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Song Of Ramesram Temple Girl
- Ode To Neptune by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.