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:
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
- Bridesmaid From Rio by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
- Lying Down by Robert Desnos
- Atlantis by W H Auden
- Олег Бундур – Кто делает весну?
- The Evenèn Star O’ Zummer by William Barnes
- Night Launch by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith
- Ольга Седакова – Цивилизация
- A Great Time by William Henry Davies
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.