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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- Come, Here Is Adieu To The City by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Костров – Новогодняя ночь
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- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько чудес за туманами кроется
- But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пируя праздник возвращенья
- The Narrative by Talha Jafri
- Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
- An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq. by William Cowper
- The Sultans Palace
- On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- The Remains by Mark Strand
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.