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:
- Olney Hymn 55: The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy by William Cowper
- Владимир Луговской – Мальчики играют на горе
- Николай Некрасов – Деревенские новости
- How Distant by Philip Larkin
- power-of-thought.html
- To A Young Writer by Yvor Winters
- No Master by William Henry Davies
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Омар Хайям – Кумир мой, вылепил тебя таким гончар
- This Will Not Win Him by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- Жан де Лафонтен – Шершни и Пчелы
- The Land of the Exile by Rabindranath Tagore
- Felix Randal poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
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
- Николай Языков – Вот яблоки так яблоки, на славу
- Николай Языков – Воспоминание
- Николай Языков – Водопад
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Николай Языков – Весна
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
- Николай Языков – Валдайский узник
- Николай Языков – В. М. Княжевичу (Простите мне простое «ты»)
- Николай Языков – В альбом Ш. К. Фон-дер-Борг (Доверчивый, простосердечной)
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- Николай Языков – Услад
- Николай Языков – Тригорское
- Николай Языков – Странный случай
- Николай Языков – Стансы (В час, как деву молодую)
- Николай Языков – Сомнение
- Николай Языков – Сказка о пастухе и диком вепре
- Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
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.