A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
What is my name to you? ‘T will die:
a wave that has but rolled to reach
with a lone splash a distant beach;
or in the timbered night a cry …
‘T will leave a lifeless trace among
names on your tablets: the design
of an entangled gravestone line
in an unfathomable tongue.
What is it then? A long-dead past,
lost in the rush of madder dreams,
upon your soul it will not cast
Mnemosyne’s pure tender beams.
But if some sorrow comes to you,
utter my name with sighs, and tell
the silence: “Memory is true –
there beats a heart wherein I dwell.”

A few random poems:
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- Last Instructions to a Painter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Visit to Yu’s Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Юлия Друнина – Все грущу о шинели
- The Fault of It poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько чудес за туманами кроется
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Жан де Лафонтен – Львиный указ
- Владислав Ходасевич – Опять во тьме. У наших ног
- Владимир Высоцкий – Купола
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Явление божества
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- Philip Levine – Philip Levine
- Unphrasing by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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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.