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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама журнала “Огонек”
- A Servant to Servants by Robert Frost
- Strong Mercy by Rabindranath Tagore
- NOCTURNAL EMBERS AND LOST LIPS by Steve Troyanovich
- Алексей Плещеев – Как солнце блещет ярко
- Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan
- Зинаида Александрова – Дозор
- Mad Day In March by Philip Levine
- Жан де Лафонтен – Воля и Неволя
- And Then It Rained by Pamela Griffiths
- His Mercy Endureth For Ever by John Oxenham
- Владимир Гиляровский – Белоснежные туманы
- Sonnet VI. To G. A. W. poem – John Keats poems
- Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Ров (РОСТА №181)
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