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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Урал
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
- Валерий Брюсов – К Пасифае. Сонет
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- Sonnet (XII) : O Buddha ! I do wish to follow your golden middle path by Neelam Sinha
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- Sonnet Xi
- Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery by William Morris
- Robert Burns Country: O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day:
- Shelley’s Death poem – Alfred Austin
- Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah
- Яков Полонский – На пути
- Юлия Жадовская – Говорят придет пора
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда бы
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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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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)
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works