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:
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- Yell of Pain by Maria Ivana Trevisani Bach
- Robert Burns: Thanksgiving For A National Victory:
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Little Boy And The Old Man by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Британишский – Перед самой войной
- No Chance To A New Life by Rashmi Sreekumar
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Water by Robert Lowell
- Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок
- First Day at School by Roger McGough
- Николай Карамзин – Рогатому человеку
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.