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:
- Sonnet LVII by William Shakespeare
- Song—A Bottle and Friend by Robert Burns
- Наум Коржавин – Ленинград
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Moonsong At Morning by Sylvia Plath
- Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel
- The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, граждане, берегите воду!.. (Главполитпросвет №249)
- Огюст Барбье – Джин
- Наталья Хрущева – Большой и маленький
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.