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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 5 by William Somervile
- Nay Not To Night
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Exodus Of The Heart by Wilmer Escovar
- To the Right Hon. The Earl of Halifax , with the Fable of the Two Springs by William Somervile
- Running To Paradise by William Butler Yeats
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
- A Farm-Picture. by Walt Whitman
- “And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Побег на рывок
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.