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:
- Robert Burns: O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair:
- Before Summer Rain by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Creative Writing For Stress Relief
- On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper
- The Conspiracy by Robert Creeley
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Если ты не впадаешь в молитвенный раж
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
- Николай Тихонов – Ленинград
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- When I Was Young the Silk poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
- Константин Бальмонт – Музыка
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
- The Voice by Sara Teasdale
- The Unseen by Sara Teasdale
- The Unchanging by Sara Teasdale
- The Tree by Sara Teasdale
- The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
- The Treasure by Sara Teasdale
- The Storm by Sara Teasdale
- The Star by Sara Teasdale
- The Song Maker by Sara Teasdale
- The Song For Colin by Sara Teasdale
- The Solitary by Sara Teasdale
- The Silent Battle by Sara Teasdale
- The Shrine by Sara Teasdale
- The Sea Wind by Sara Teasdale
- The Sanctuary by Sara Teasdale
- The Rose by Sara Teasdale
- The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- The Return by Sara Teasdale
- The Princess In The Tower by Sara Teasdale
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.