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:
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
- Aquí te hubiese amado by Luz del Alba Nicola
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Золото
- Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste
- Sonnet CIX by William Shakespeare
- Cantico del Sole poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты будешь ждать
- Ben Nevis: A Dialogue poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: The Rantin’ Dog, The Daddie O’t:
- Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond 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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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