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:
- Farewell (II) by Wang Wei
- Sonnet 08 poem – John Milton poems
- Wardens Of The Wave poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не трать огня напрасных убеждений
- Look Now On That Adventurer Who Hath Paid by William Wordsworth
- A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Subtlety
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Омар Хайям о людях: Стихи, рубаи о человеке Омара Хайяма – Poetry Monster
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- Solitude poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To His Mistress In Absence by Torquato Tasso
- The Fading Flower by Will McKendree Carleton
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- Silence by Riju Dave
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works