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:
- On A May Glory-A Welcome Song poem – Nithin Purple poems | Poetry Monster
- The Middle of the World by Samuel Hazo
- To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight by William Wordsworth
- Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт
- When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Набоков – Спроси у хрустальной луны
- On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley
- English Poetry. Charles Wesley. Hark! A Voice Divides the Sky. Чарльз Уэсли.
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander
- Come O’er the Sea by Thomas Moore
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
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works