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!
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- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- Silences still voice by Rohini Bhatia Singj
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
- Couplet 6 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston by Robert Burns
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
- This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden
- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Луговской – Радость
- Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.