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:
- innocence.html
- Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists by William Butler Yeats
- Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Robert Burns: I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town:
- Ольга Берггольц – Синеглазый мальчик, синеглазый
- Sweet Stay-at-Home by William Henry Davies
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
- Robert Burns: My Hoggie:
- Robert Burns: On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,: Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
- Untitled XXVII by Yunus Emre
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Hora Cero by Manolo Arriola
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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