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:
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Иван Киуру – Звездный полет
- Владимир Маяковский – Нынче бар в России нет… (Главполитпросвет №37)
- Альфред де Мюссе – Как лепестки весеннего цветка
- From The Flats. by Sidney Lanier
- Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson by Phillis Wheatley
- Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
- The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin
- Такахама Кёси – Ливень прошел
- Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
- Along The Way by Rabindranath Tagore
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Федор Тютчев – К Н.
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.