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:
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Я для песни задушевной
- Николай Глазков – Четыре времени года
- Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- The Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- Beauty by Tony Hoagland
- Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Last Poem by Ted Berrigan
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- Mugging (I) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Polly’s Tree by Sylvia Plath
- Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A New Song by Thomas Chatterton
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.