A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Under the blue skies of her native land
She languished and began to fade…
Until surely there flew without a sound
Above me, her young shade;
But there stretches between us an uncrossable line.
In vain my feelings I tried to awaken.
The lips that brought the news were made of stone,
And I listened like a stone, unshaken.
So this is she for whom my soul once burned
In the tense and heavy fire,
Obsessed, exhausted, driven out of my mind
By tenderness and desire!
Where are the torments? Where is love? Alas!
For the unreturning days’
Sweet memory, and for the poor credulous
Shade, I find no lament, no tears.
A few random poems:
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Тихонов – Крутили мельниц диких жернова
- Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Кудри
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman
- Ок Мельникова – Не в этот раз
- Владимир Степанов – Почему не спят котята?
- Галина Гампер – Я повторяю, сердце остужая
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- UNDECIPHERABLE by Satish Verma
- Bound for your distant home poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Ultima Thule by William Ellery Leonard
- Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Виктор Гюго – Без книги в мире ночь и ум людской убог
- Виктор Гусев – Сестра
- Виктор Гусев – Песня о Москве
- Виктор Гусев – Октябрьский смотр
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- Виктор Гончаров – Прощайте, спасибо
- Виктор Гончаров – Опять пришла пора дождей
- Виктор Гончаров – Не знаю, что делать с душою
- Виктор Гончаров – Когда тебя бессонной ночью
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чатырдаг
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Буря и тишь
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Борьба
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Богач
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Близ берегов
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Благодарю Вас за цветы
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бивак
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бездна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
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.