Poems by Alexander Block
(Alexander Blok poetry)
In English translation
(Russian originals, you’d have to switch to Russian, opens in a new tab)
Alexander Block, poems by Alexandre Block, also rendered as Blok and Alexandr Blok, in English translation. Alexander Block is a leading poet of the Russian symbolism movement, a literary giant of the fin de siècle through the Russian civil war period, though like many poets he, alas, doesn’t translate well.
A few random poems:
- The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh
- A Longing for Silence! by Preeth Nambiar
- Dilton Marsh Halt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- Kailangan ko’y Yakap by Melissa Sazon Flores
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
- When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- I See so Deeply Within Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Lover’s Gifts XLII: Are You a Mere Picture by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ode To Psyche poem – John Keats 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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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