A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
I’ve lived to see desire vanish,
With hope I’ve slowly come to part,
And I am left with only anguish,
The fruit of emptiness at heart.
Under the storms of merciless fate,
My worn and withered garland lies–
In sadness, lonesome, I await:
How far away is my demise?
Thus, conquered by a tardy frost,
Through gale’s whistling and shimmer,
Late, on a naked limb exposed
A lonesome leaf is left to quiver!…
A few random poems:
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- On the Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Are You a Thinking Man? by Rifat Ilgaz
- Thinking For Berky by William Stafford
- Омар Хайям – Лучше локон любимой, лаская, схватить
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
- Омар Хайям – Моя любовь к тебе достигла совершенства
- Владимир Маяковский – Был без работы буржуям пир… (Главполитпросвет №24)
- love.html
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Winter Landscape, With Rooks by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog by William Wordsworth
- Kiss by Ruth Padel
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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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.