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 Маяковский – Враги хлеба
- Владимир Высоцкий – Штормит весь вечер, и, пока
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Five Songs – II by W H Auden
- Владимир Степанов – Двенадцать месяцев
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes
- To A Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
- On Visiting The Tomb Of Burns poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- Winter Wind by Vasil Slavov
- Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы были у Беллы
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.