A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
You saw perched on a cliff a maid,
Her raiment white above the breakers,
When the mad sea reared up and played
Its whips of spray on coastal acres
And now and then the lightnings flush,
And purple gleams upon her hover,
And fluttering up in swirling rush,
The wind rides in her airy cover?
Fair is the sea in gales arrayed,
The heavens drained of blue and flashing,
But fairer on her cliff the maid
Than storms and skies and breakers crashing.
A few random poems:
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country by William Cowper
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- Николай Заболоцкий – Приглашение на пир
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond by Sylvia Plath
- Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden
- A Song To Eleonora Duse In “Francesca da Rimini ” by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Британишский – Царство – одно, но России-то – две
- A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
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 I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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.