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:
- A Prayer For Artemis
- Михаил Лермонтов – Весна
- Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry
- Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
- A Cure At Porlock poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Far Within Us #6 by Vasko Popa
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- Владимир Маяковский – Нетрудно, ландышами дыша
- A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- Владимир Маяковский – Профсоюзы – производства рычаг… (Главполитпросвет №10)
- Martha Washington by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Маяковский – Нормализованная гайка (РОСТА № 171)
- The Arrow by William Butler Yeats
- Story by Stephen Dunn
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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.