A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
One half Milord, one half in trade,
One half a sage, one half a dunce,
One half a crook, but here for once
There’s every hope he’ll make the grade.
A few random poems:
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Бродвей
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- Behold this Swarthy Face. by Walt Whitman
- The Admirers Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Желания
- Владимир Британишский – Били в армии, в школе, в столице, в селе
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe by Shel Silverstein
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Unspoken by Satish Verma
- The Buried Train by Robert Bly
- Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment) by Samuel Coleridge
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.