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:
- Владимир Корнилов – Прежнее слово
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Марии
- He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries by Vachel Lindsay
- An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar by Robert Browning
- Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида
- Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste
- Pied Beauty poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Василий Жуковский – К кн. Вяземскому и В.Л.Пушкину
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Roslin Inn:
- A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World’s Fair Judge by William Topaz McGonagall
- On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
- Robert Burns: Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn:
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
- Sonnet 08 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 07 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 05 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 04 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 03: Canzone poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 02 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 01 poem – John Milton poems
- Song On May Morning poem – John Milton poems
- Samson Agonistes poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 88 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 87 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 86 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 85 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 84 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 83 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 82 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 81 poem – John Milton poems
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
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.