A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
The wondrous moment of our meeting…
Still I remember you appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty’s angel pure and clear.
In hopeless ennui surrounding
The worldly bustle, to my ear
For long your tender voice kept sounding,
For long in dreams came features dear.
Time passed. Unruly storms confounded
Old dreams, and I from year to year
Forgot how tender you had sounded,
Your heavenly features once so dear.
My backwoods days dragged slow and quiet —
Dull fence around, dark vault above —
Devoid of God and uninspired,
Devoid of tears, of fire, of love.
Sleep from my soul began retreating,
And here you once again appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty’s angel pure and clear.
In ecstasy my heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive;
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting
The fire, and tears, and love alive.

A few random poems:
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- A Precise Woman by Yehuda Amichai
- Константин Ваншенкин – Городские костры
- Николай Карамзин – Рогатому человеку
- Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
- Five Songs – II by W H Auden
- Miscast I poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- Scenes Of The Mind poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare
- O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Закаляйся
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живёт на свете человек
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
- Владимир Британишский – Карьеры лицеистов
- Владимир Британишский – Калмыцкое побережье Каспия
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- Владимир Британишский – Как из конного двора
- Владимир Британишский – Из рассказов отца
- Владимир Британишский – Иван Долгорукой
- Владимир Британишский – Итальянское путешествие
- Владимир Британишский – История, поколобродив тут
- Владимир Британишский – Историк и источник
- Владимир Британишский – Иона
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- Владимир Британишский – И у нас однако ж был Лицей
- Владимир Британишский – Греч: Встреча с Батюшковым
- Владимир Британишский – Горы, горы – горизонты
- Владимир Британишский – Горный институт
- Владимир Британишский – Глухарь
- Владимир Британишский – Гердер в Риге
- Владимир Британишский – Геометрия
- Владимир Британишский – Философы! Не верьте островам
- Владимир Британишский – Фет в кирасирском полку
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.