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:
- Владимир Солоухин – У тихой речки детство проводя
- Владимир Маяковский – Советский Союз, намотай на ус – кто Юз
- The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
- Song of the Indian Maid, from ‘Endymion’ poem – John Keats poems
- What Hidden Sweetness Is There by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Departure by Sylvia Plath
- come on in, baby by Raj Arumugam
- The Rose by William Cowper
- The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends by William Butler Yeats
- Hymn Light
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- Ярослав Смеляков – Земляника
- Владимир Британишский – Ностальгия
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.