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:
- Song For A Revolutionary Love by Sylvia Plath
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Набоков – Пускай все горестней и глуше
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Walking Wounded by Vernon Scannell
- On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
- Николай Заболоцкий – Голубиная книга
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman
- Олег Григорьев – Был праздник с весельем и танцами
- Fancy
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.