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:
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Гумилев – Орел Синдбада
- In Memoriam Mae Noblitt poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- The Lesson by Maya Angelou
- Prayer For Lightning poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- Neglecting the Word of God: A Foundational Cause of Lukewarmness
- In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- His Loss by Robert Herrick
- Night Launch by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
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.