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:
- Омар Хайям – Если все государства, вблизи и вдали
- TOELESS JOURNEY by Satish Verma
- Heart of God by Vachel Lindsay
- a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Sheppard’s Quest by Shawn Ervin
- The Road to Avignon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Он не вернулся из боя
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- Robert Burns: Inconstancy In Love:
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к женщинам
- Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.