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 Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Холодно, метёт кругом
- Paul’s Wife by Robert Frost
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне скулы от досады сводит
- The Black Tower by William Butler Yeats
- Яков Полонский – На пути
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- Федор Сологуб – Лежу и дышу осторожно
- Robert Burns: Logan Braes:
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Magic Markers by Rose Mary Boehm
- A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing by Shel Silverstein
- I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.