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:
- Олег Григорьев – Лежу я в одиночестве
- Николай Гумилев – На Дуксе ли, на Бенце ль я
- A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock by Robert Burns
- Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия Джону Гею
- Юнна Мориц – На смерть Джульетты
- The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems
- Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste
- Владимир Британишский – Калмыцкое побережье Каспия
- Buddha by Vachel Lindsay
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
- Владимир Маяковский – Дела вузные, хорошие и конфузные
- Far Within Us #7 by Vasko Popa
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.