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Poems and painting, Week of October 5, 2026

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Dear readers and subscribers, I’m absolutely delighted to share that I’m finally feeling better, and our regular posts are making a joyful return! Starting around Christmas, we’ll resume our delightful posts about our rescued birds. This week brings the exciting opportunity to share enchanting poems from Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman—some of our most inspiring American poets! We’re also thrilled to brighten our collection with captivating French poems by the talented Tristan Corbière, Gérard de Nerval, and Paul Verlaine. We’re capping it all off with beautiful Russian poems from the remarkable Anna Akhmatova, Fyodor Sologub, and Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva. Additionally, our series on the talented Russian artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin continues to inspire, showcasing his breathtaking masterpiece Oak forest. I hope you discover something delightful in both the poetry and art that inspires your own creativity!



American Poetry – Poésie Américaine – Американская поэзия

Poems by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta: Love, The Ideal, The Ideal Found, Image Worship

Poems by James Russell Lowell: On hearing a Sonata of Beethoven’s played in the Next Room , Without and Within, Love and Thought, Tempora Mutantur, An Epistle to George William Curtis 

Poems by Walt Whitman: By Broad Potomac’s Shore, Our Old Feuillage!, A Broadway Pageant , The Prairie States, To Foreign Lands


Poésie Française – French Poetry – Французская поэзия

Poèmes de Tristan Corbière: Déclin, Bonsoir, Le Poète contumace, Sonnet de nuit, Guitare

Poèmes de Gérard de Nerval: Notre-Damis-de-Paris, Une femme et l’amour, Rêverie de Charles VI, Nos adieux à la Chambre des députés (1831), Madame et souveraine 

Poèmes de Paul Verlaine: Pour la même , À une dame qui partait pour la Colombie , À E***. ( I et II) , Anniversaire, à William Rothenstein , À mon éditeur (— I. Misère et — II. Richesse)


Русская поэзия – Russian Poetry – Poésie Russe

Стихи Анны Ахматовой: Отрывок, Отрывок о Ташкенте, Пo твердому гребню сугроба, Падение Берлина, Памяти 19 июля 1914

Стихи Федора Кузьмича Сологуба: На закат, на зарю, Всё во всём, В душе моей затхлая мгла, Неизвестность, неизбежность, — вот где лучший сок времён…, Какая нежная интимность…

Стихи Марины Ивановны Цветаевой: Принц и лебеди, За книгами, Неравные братья, Скучные игры, Мятежники


This week our article was a translation and short analysis of the poem “About prowess, exploits, glory” by Alexander Blok with English and Russian side by side with the painting “Ipatievsky Monastery on a winter night” by Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov

Дубовый лес - 1869
Дубовый лес – 1869

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