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:
- Gospel Music Inspires Body & Soul
- Sonnet To Satan by Sylvia Plath
- England’s Answer by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Славянский вопрос-то решается просто
- Алексей Плещеев – Знакомые звуки, чудесные звуки
- On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- Mourning poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Одесские куплеты
- The Promise of the Morning Star poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?:
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
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 War Films by Sir Henry Newbolt
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists by Vachel Lindsay
- Repression of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- The Paint-Kings by Washington Allston
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Eccentricity by Washington Allston
- Art by Washington Allston
- America To Great Britain by Washington Allston
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- The Furies by Weldon Kees
- The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- The Beach by Weldon Kees
- Round by Weldon Kees
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.