A poem by Alexander Pushkin – Pouchkine, Pooshkin (1799-1837), in English translation
I remember a marvellous instant,
Unto me bending down from above,
Thy radiant vision appearing
As an angel of beauty and love.
‘Mid the torments of desperate sadness,
In the torture of bondage and sighs,
To me rang thy voice so beloved–
And I dreamed thy miraculous eyes.
But the years rolled along–and life’s tempests
My illusions, my youth overcame,
I forgot that sweet voice full of music–
And thy glance like a heavenly flame.
In the covert and grief of my exile,
The days stretched unchanged in their flight,
Bereft inspiration or power,
Bereft both of love and of light.
To my soul now approaches awakening,
To me thou art come from above,
As a radiant and wonderful vision–
As an angel of beauty and love.
As before my heart throbs with emotion,
Life looks to me worthy and bright,
And I feel inspiration and power–
And again love and tears and the light!
A few random poems:
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Алишер Навои – Когда, тоскуя по тебе
- Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Блистая, пробегают облака
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка про мангустов
- Song by Robert Creeley
- Appeal by Ndue Ukaj
- To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Prisoner by Rabindranath Tagore
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- A New Age by W H Auden
- When I Watch the Living Meet poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Robert Burns: A Dedication : To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Расскажи, дорогой
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 Birch-Tree at Loschwitz poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Straw in the Street poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sinfonia Eroica poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Run to Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ralph to Mary poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Philosophy poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Out of Town poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Wye in May poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Threshold poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Oh, Is It Love? poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- New Love, New Life poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Magdalen poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- London Poets poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- London in July poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lohengrin poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Last Words poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- June poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- In the Nower poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- In the Night poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
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.