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:
- Robert Burns: The Rights Of Woman: An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night, November 26, 1792.
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- Engagements by Satish Verma
- In Due Observance Of An Ancient Rite by William Wordsworth
- As I lay with Head in your Lap, Camerado. by Walt Whitman
- Confession by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- Green Rock, Winthrop Bay by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Лермонтов – Булевар
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
- The Arrivals by Sharon Olds
- Николай Некрасов – Вчера, сегодня
- Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves by William Butler Yeats
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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.