A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
Don’t fear death in earthly travels.
Don’t fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads.
Your death will come to you, and never
You shall be, else, a slave of life,
Just waiting for a dawn’s favor,
From nights of poverty and strife.
She’ll build with you a common law,
One will of the Eternal Reign.
And you are not condemned to slow
And everlasting deadly pain.
A few random poems:
- Sparkles from The Wheel. by Walt Whitman
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- Nos Immortales by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Robert Burns: Ode On The Departed Regency Bill:
- M for Man, Money and Moon by Raj Arumugam
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- Алишер Навои – Сверкнула в темноте ночной краса
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- The Child’s Greäve by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Author’s Death: Written With The Supposed View Of Being Handed To Rankine After The Poet’s Interment
- The Heart Of The Woman by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Николай Языков – Елагиной
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alexander Blok (1880-1921), also Block, was a Russian poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. A classic of Russian literature.