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:
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Наше воскресенье
- My impure god and I by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Galahad In The Castle Of The Maidens by Sara Teasdale
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Британишский – Старая Рига
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Private Property poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Robert Burns: For The Sake O’ Somebody:
- The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
- He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.:
- Владимир Корнилов – АЯМ
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.