A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
With the hostile camp in skirmish
Our men once were changing shot,
Pranced the Delibash his charger
‘Fore our ranks of Cossacks hot.
Trifle not with free-born Cossacks!
Nor too o’er foolhardy be!
Thy mad mood thou wilt atone for–
On his pike he’ll skewer thee!
‘Ware friend Cossack! Or at full bound,
Off thy head, at lightning speed
With his scimitar he’ll sever
From thy trunk! He will indeed!
What confusion! What a roaring!
Halt! thou devil’s pack, have care!
On the pike is lanced the horseman–
Headless stands the Cossack there!
A few random poems:
- Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
- Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
- Lament for the Makers by William Dunbar
- Шекспир – Не позволяю помыслам ревнивым – Сонет 57
- Dans les filets de midi by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Dark Matter
- The Pact by Sharon Olds
- The Russian Fugitive by William Wordsworth
- O Why Do You Walk poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Versicles On Sign-Posts :
- Геннадий Айги – БЕЗ НАЗВАНИЯ
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A REQUEST TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- The Motherless Child by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Тигр и киса
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Search engines:
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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.