A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
I wait for you. The years in silence pass
And as the image, one, I wait for you again.
The distance is in flame — and clear one as glass,
I, silent, wait — with sadness, love and pain.
The distance is in flame, and you are coming fast,
But I’m afraid that you will change your image yet,
And will initiate the challenging mistrust
By changing features, used, at long awaited end.
Oh, how I will fell — so low and so pine,
Unable to overcome my dreams’ continued set!
The distance is such bright! And azure is so fine!
But I’m afraid that you will change your image yet.

A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- The Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Гумилев – Жестокой
- Ballades V – Of His Choice Of A Sepulchre poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владислав Ходасевич – Опять во тьме. У наших ног
- Grey eyed Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson’s Ossian by William Wordsworth
- Remembering Mountain Men by William Stafford
- Алишер Навои – Цветком, что счастье нам несет
- Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Маяковский – Били раз… (РОСТА №631)
- Thinking For Berky by William Stafford
- Владимир Корнилов – Пророк
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: The Prelude poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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.