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:
- When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
- Exposure by Seamus Heaney
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit by Vachel Lindsay
- Let Me Not Forget by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Юрий Котов – Ты что-же боль, меня не отпускаешь
- The Morning Half-Life Blues by Marge Piercy
- Олег Бундур – Как мама машину выбирала
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Ольга Берггольц – Я говорю
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. by Walt Whitman
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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.