A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights,
Our waiting hours were passing slowly,
And shining you came down from the mysterious heights
And brought to us your tablets holy –
So? in the wilderness, beneath a tent, you found
Us, feasting mad in empty gaiety,
Singing our savage songs and galloping around
Some newly hand-created deity.
We grew confused, aloof from your good rays hid we.
Then, seized of wrath and desolation,
Have you, O prophet, cursed your mindless family And smashed your tablets in frustration?
No, you have cursed us not. From heights you disappear
Into the shade of little valleys;
You love the heavens’ crash, but also wish to hear
Bees humming over red azaleas.
Such is the honest bard. With passion he laments
At solemn fairs of Melpomena –
To smile upon the crowd’s plebeian merriments,
The liberties of coarse arena.
Now Rome is calling him, now majesties of Troy,
Now elder Ossian’s craggy gravels –
And in the meantime he will hear with childish joy
Of Czar Sultan’s heroic travels.
A few random poems:
- Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
- Владимир Корнилов – Щитовидка
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня гренландцев
- To a President. by Walt Whitman
- Esteemed Bliss by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Robert Burns: One Night As I Did Wander:
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Степанов – Наша Армия
- On Death poem – John Keats poems
- Love thy Country and Do a useful Act – Gurazada by Vijay Narayana Chilaka
- Vayu The Wind
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
- Robert Burns: Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast:
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair:
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- Robert Burns: By Allan Stream:
- Robert Burns: Had I A Cave:
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan:
- Robert Burns: Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway:
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo:
- Robert Burns: Bonie Jean-A Ballad:
- Robert Burns: O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair:
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Robert Burns: Logan Braes:
- Robert Burns: The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor:
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army:
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Robert Burns: Extempore Reply To An Invitation:
- Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen:
- Robert Burns: The Raptures Of Folly:
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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.