A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Why feed the early signs of boredom
With sinister and dismal thought,
And wait for separation, burdened
With sorrow, lonesome and distraught?
The day of grief is close at hand!
You’ll stand, alone, out in the sun,
And try to bring back once again
These days, but they will long be gone.
Misfortune! then, you’ll be ready
To die in exile, on the street,
If you could only see your lady,
Or hear the shuffle of her feet.
A few random poems:
- Sweet Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Ode to H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- Ольга Берггольц – 27 января 1945 года
- София Парнок – Об одной лошаденке чалой
- Ольга Седакова – Деревья, сильный ветер
- Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62
- All is Truth. by Walt Whitman
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- XIII: Some Verses: On A Report On The Death Of The Author by William Alexander
- Waking up on a rainy morning by Preeth Nambiar
- Шекспир – Но не боюсь и смерть – Сонет 80
- Sonnet CI by William Shakespeare
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.