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:
- Владимир Лифшиц – Баллада о черством куске
- Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
- Accidents by Russell Edson
- The Widow’s House by William Barnes
- My Beach by Robert Saltzman
- The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Aquarium epoch by Vladimir Marku
- Water by Robert Lowell
- Алексей Ржевский – Как я стал знать взор твой
- Вера Павлова – Удобряю ресницы снами
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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.