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:
- Олег Чупров – На предназначенной орбите
- Владимир Вишневский – Хотел я искупаться в знак протеста
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare
- Mad Nuclear Mushrooms by Adeola Ikuomola
- I Heard Immanuel Singing by Vachel Lindsay
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- phantasm.html
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress by William Wordsworth
- Константин Батюшков – Мщение
- Robert Burns: Written In Friars Carse Hermitage: On Nithside
- Омар Хайям – Лучше пить и веселых красавиц ласкать
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
- For The Anniversary Of John Keats’ Death by Sara Teasdale
- Огюст Барбье – Аллегри
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:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works