A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
He, who was born in stagnant year
Does not remember own way.
We, kids of Russia’s years of fear,
Remember every night and day.
Years that burned everything to ashes!
Do you bring madness or grace?
The war’s and freedom’s fire flashes
Left bloody light on every face.
We are struck dumb: the toxsin’s pressure
Has made us tightly close lips.
In living hearts, once full of pleasure,
The fateful desert now sleeps.
And let the crying ravens soar
Right over our death-bed,
May those who were striving more,
O God, behold Thy Kingdom’s Great!
A few random poems:
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
- E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
- Linda Deäne by William Barnes
- Hemingwayan waves of time by Ndue Ukaj
- Written Upon A Blank Leaf In “The Complete Angler.” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Земля наша обильна
- Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress by William Wordsworth
- Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer by William Cowper
- A Code of Morals by Rudyard Kipling
- The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride by Rabindranath Tagore
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 56. Томас Мур.
- The Ballad Of Moll Magee by William Butler Yeats
- Forgetting Someone by Yehuda Amichai
- Ольга Седакова – Сказка
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.