A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
On waters, spread without end,
Dressed with the sunset so purple,
It sings and prophesies for land,
Unable to lift the smashed wings’ couple…
The charge of Tartars’ hordes it claims,
And bloody set of executions,
Earthquake, and hunger and the flames,
The death of justice, crime’s intrusion…
And caught with fear, cold and smooth,
The fair face flames as one of lovers’,
But sound with prophetic truth
The lips that the bloody foam covers!…
A few random poems:
- Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Победой увенчав Октябрьский бой… (Главполитпросвет №364)
- Robert Burns: Leezie Lindsay: Fragment
- The Weavers by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Midnight Mass
- Lover’s Gifts XLII: Are You a Mere Picture by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Донецкий шахтер голодает… (РОСТА №619)
- The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
- On A Bath, By Plato by William Cowper
- Creation poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Говорят, лезу прямо под нож
- The Dying Prince
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
- Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House by Robert Burns
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 Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.