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:
- Виктор Кудлачев – Весна
- Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- Laws for Creations. by Walt Whitman
- The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas
- News For The Delphic Oracle by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Корнилов – Неподвижность
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- PRESCIENCE by Satish Verma
- Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Юлия Друнина – В школе
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- Алексей Толстой – Ты знаешь, я люблю
- Алексей Жемчужников – Уже давно иду я, утомленный
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.