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:
- Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости
- Passion makes the old medicine new: by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Себе, любимому, посвящает эти строки автор
- The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Глазков – Давно хотел сложить стихи
- Георгий Иванов – Так тихо гаснул этот день
- Aix In Provence by Robert Browning
- Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
- Nami Danam… poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- On the Nativity of Christ by William Dunbar
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.