A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
Before you, silently I sway.
I feel so anxious when you’re near me,
In vain, I cast a glance your way:
I’m sure that I will never say,
What I’m imagining so freely.
A few random poems:
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
- Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
- Finding by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Костров – Вот избушка
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- Альфред де Мюссе – Намуна
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Папа пристал
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Степанов – Гном (Буква Г)
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Rankine:
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы в огне да и в море вовеки не сыщете брода
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.