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:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- Release poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Владимир Вишневский – Тем, что в женщине разбудишь
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Eyesight poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Владимир Солоухин – Все смотрю
- Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
- Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
- Ольга Седакова – Я жизнь в порыве жить
- Robert Burns: What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man:
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты все еще тревожишься — что будет
- Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
- The Blacksmith by Olga Dytyniak
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.