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:
- To Joanna by William Wordsworth
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Liebestod
- Алишер Навои – Птицу-сердце полонила нежных локонов силком
- The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Британишский – Не избранностью, не особенностью
- Robert Burns: My Eppie Adair:
- William Cullen Bryant – William Cullen Bryant
- Love Sonnet XXVI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Know thy SELF by Neelam Sinha
- Олег Бундур – Без меня
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.