A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
One half Milord, one half in trade,
One half a sage, one half a dunce,
One half a crook, but here for once
There’s every hope he’ll make the grade.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Там были генеральши, были жёны офицеров
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Как в поход я собираюсь
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Buddies by Richard Schiffman
- Омар Хайям – Цветам и запахам владеть тобой доколе
- Альфред де Мюссе – Не забывай! Когда заря рассвета
- Shining Armour by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
- Омар Хайям – Грех Хайям совершил и совсем занемог
- Ode to Poetry by Walter William Safar
- Black Lake by Memphis Knight
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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.