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:
- Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке
- Orlando Furioso Canto 1 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight by Yvor Winters
- On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Dirce by Walter Savage Landor
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бартеневой
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Николай Гумилев – Моя мечта летит к далекому Парижу
- Владимир Британишский – Когда потянет нас на компромисс
- A Little Memory
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- Владимир Маяковский – Работникам стиха и прозы, на лето едущим в колхозы
- Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
- “Sadder than lark when lowering” poem – Alfred Austin
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.