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:
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: There Was A Bonie Lass:
- Sonnet 110: Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there by William Shakespeare
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Олег Бундур – Тополёк
- What am I, After All? by Walt Whitman
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- This by Ralph Angel
- I am a sculptor, a molder of form by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Peaceful Battles by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Жан де Лафонтен – Две Козы
- Agonizing picture of human existence(Rural Life) by Seema Gupta
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.