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:
- Омар Хайям – Куда уйти от пламенных страстей
- A Crimson Carpet by Pamela Griffiths
- Михаил Кузмин – Три раза я его видел лицом к лицу
- The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько павших бойцов полегло вдоль дорог
- Slough poem – John Betjeman poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Кто мне откликнулся в чаще лесной
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- It was an April morning: fresh and clear by William Wordsworth
- Book Fourth [Summer Vacation] by William Wordsworth
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- acts_of_love.html
- Collage by Martine Morillon-Carreau
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.