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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владимир Степанов – Хлопотунья
- The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
- Ellipsis by Shaunna Harper
- Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
- Вероника Тушнова – У каждого есть в жизни хоть одно,
- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen by William Butler Yeats
- Morning Song in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Здравствуй, “Юность”
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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 Blok (1880-1921), also Block, was a Russian poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. A classic of Russian literature.