A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Rich the first flower’s graces be,
But dearer far the last to me;
My spirit feels renewal sweet,
Of all my dreams hope or desire–
The hours of parting oft inspire
More than the moments when we meet!
A few random poems:
- Far Within Us #5 by Vasko Popa
- Song by Robert Creeley
- The Princess In The Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- The Lark by William Barnes
- Firesong by Sylvia Plath
- A Prayer For Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns
- Джон Мильтон – По случаю своего двадцатитрехлетия
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти В. Башкина
- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- cinema_screen.html
- A Grey Day by William Vaughn Moody
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 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.