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 Xiii
- Николай Огарев – Прощанье с краем, откуда не уезжал
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам нравится есть?.. (РОСТА №528)
- Омар Хайям – Не горюй, что забудется имя твое
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- Flight To Nature by William Gilmore Simms
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Face Lift by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows by William Shakespeare
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
- I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
- Владимир Маяковский – Дурацкий сон (РОСТА №234)
- Николай Некрасов – Детство
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.