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 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye by William Shakespeare
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- No Master by William Henry Davies
- Владимир Костров – Вот женщина с седыми волосами
- Couplet 3 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – На Дуксе ли, на Бенце ль я
- Sonnet CXXI by William Shakespeare
- Metaphors Of A Magnifico by Wallace Stevens
- An Oath poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- O Do Not Love Too Long by William Butler Yeats
- On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The Bay Of Scanctacruze, In The Island Of teneriff.1657 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Толстой Алексей Николаевич стихи: Читать стихотворения Алексея Толстого – Список произведений, стихов поэта на Poetry Monster
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- I love you
- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- Dog racing
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Who of you ever
- Аnything can happen
- Outside the Window, Snow
- You must once
- February 23
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Море волнуется, манит к себе
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Кипение
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Каждый день и каждый миг судьбу благодарю
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.