A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Before you, silently I sway.
I feel so anxious when you’re near me,
In vain, I cast a glance your way:
I’m sure that I will never say,
What I’m imagining so freely.
A few random poems:
- Doubt by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Степанов – Воробей
- Валерий Брюсов – Из тихих бездн
- A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Двести лет проживешь, или тысячу лет
- Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light by William Shakespeare
- The Crazed Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Why?
- Владимир Британишский – Ладожский канал
- Омар Хайям – Не таи в своем сердце обид и скорбей
- The Old Maids Story
- The Old Poet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Голубое, голубое
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На улице
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.