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:
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems
- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Степанов – Двенадцать месяцев
- A London Plane-Tree poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Тост
- The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
- Владимир Корнилов – Гумилев
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
- Near Avalon by William Morris
- Николай Заболоцкий – Урал
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- Adventures of King Robert the Bruce by William Topaz McGonagall
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.