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:
- On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray
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- Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Ермолаева – Ты где летал, мой падающий с Фанских гор
- Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma
- Николай Глазков – Почему я отказался от самолёта
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- Desertion by Rupert Brooke
- Verdad Innegable by Victoria Luisa Mora Paoli
- Огюст Барбье – Джульетта милая
- Алексей Плещеев – По чувствам братья мы с тобой
- Юрий Коринец – О счастье
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ecclefechan:
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.