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:
- The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
- Virtuous Love by Rajendra Ojha
- Femme Fatale by Nijole Miliauskaite
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Ольга Берггольц – Синеглазый мальчик, синеглазый
- Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- Нина Воронель – Меня пугает власть моя над миром
- Николай Языков – Валдайский узник
- The Song For Colin by Sara Teasdale
- Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
- Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
- absent-mindedness; or I Dream of Spices by Raj Arumugam
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.