A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
What’s friendship? The hangover’s faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.
A few random poems:
- Fragment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Salutation by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- “Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett
- Robert Burns: Adam Armour’s Prayer:
- Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
- A Fantasy by Sara Teasdale
- A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Freedom poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sestina Otiosa by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Death Of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bullfinch by William Cowper
- Hurting Dive by Satish Verma
- Matrimony by Mike Yuan
- Can You See The Pride In The Panther? by Tupac Shakur
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.