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:
- Soulmating by Mike Yuan
- Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley
- Ольга Седакова – Неужели, Мария, только рамы скрипят
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
- Ad Piscatorem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest by William Shakespeare
- Жан де Лафонтен – Фортуна и Дитя
- Song Of Four Faries poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует неделя ремонта! (РОСТА № 294)
- Demeter And Persephone poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Kangaroo talks to the Sun by Raj Arumugam
- A Circular by Thomas Hardy
- Sabbath, My Love poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
- Омар Хайям – Этот мастер всевышний
- To Double Lock by Pierre Reverdy
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.