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:
- Paradise Lost: Book 09 poem – John Milton poems
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Love Sonnet XXXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Яков Полонский – Белая ночь
- Galahad In The Castle Of The Maidens by Sara Teasdale
- Doom’s Day by Satish Verma
- Constantia039s Song
- Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
- The Dregs Of Love poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Типографы книги делают… (РОСТА №241)
- Алексей Толстой – Сватовство
- Огюст Барбье – Лев
- For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.