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:
- Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Vaïces That Be Gone by William Barnes
- Михаил Кузмин – В ранний утра час покидал Милет я
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- A Wild Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- paralipomemnon.html
- Ольга Седакова – Памяти поэта
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- The Taxi poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Хомяков – Раскаявшейся России
- Hope by Walter William Safar
- The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling
- Gwaïn Down The Steps Vor Water by William Barnes
- Revelation
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 Hosts
- 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
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works