A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
I prefer the gorgeous freedom,
And I fly to lands of grace,
Where in wide and clear meadows
All is good, as dreams, and blest.
Here they rice: the clover clear,
And corn-flower’s gentle lace,
And the rustle is always here:
“Ears are leaning… Take your ways!”
In this immense sea of fair,
Only one of blades reclines.
You don’t see in misty air,
I’d seen it!It will be mine!

A few random poems:
- I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
- To Gnedich poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
- Coming to Terms by Mary Etta Metcalf
- May-Night by William Ellery Leonard
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
- By the Lake by Tu Fu
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel
- Treat Well Your Wife by William Barnes
- Light by Tala Bar
- Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- Rich Days by William Henry Davies
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
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- The White Pall Of Peace poem – Alfred Austin
- The Spring-Time, O The Spring–Time poem – Alfred Austin
- “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- The Season poem – Alfred Austin
- The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- The Owl And The Lark poem – Alfred Austin
- The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin
- The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin
- “The lark confinèd in his cage” poem – Alfred Austin
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.