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:
- Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie:
- The Sonnet, The Lady, And The Prince by William Alexander
- The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Black song about a black woman and red wine by Vinko Kalinić
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Одно из двух
- Владимир Маяковский – Что делать
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Вероника Тушнова – Тень
- At The End Of The Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Олег Григорьев – Папа вазу опрокинул
- Олег Бундур – Будильник
- The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
- For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
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.