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 Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling
- Кондратий Рылеев – Не вчера ли в хороводе
- Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
- Федор Сологуб – Во мне мечты мои цветут
- Николай Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- At A Calvary Near The Ancre by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Маяковский – Тресты
- everything is a lie by tulip
- Song—The Tear-drop—“Wae is my heart” by Robert Burns
- Алексей Ржевский – Сонет, три разные системы заключающий
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – В Париже совещание “живых сил” (РОСТА №851)
- Robert Burns: Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham:
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
- Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Twelve Months After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Trench Duty by Siegfried Sassoon
- Tree and Sky by Siegfried Sassoon
- Together by Siegfried Sassoon
- Today by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon
- To My Brother by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- To a Very Wise Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Thrushes by Siegfried Sassoon
- ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Their Frailty by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Tombstone-Maker by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road by Siegfried Sassoon
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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.