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:
- Children Are Like Water by Robert Lloyd Jaffe
- At Oxford by William Lisle Bowles
- Night dyes its hair by Vladimir Marku
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 14 poem – John Milton poems
- Fire’s Reflection by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Аля Кудряшева – Тишина
- Николай Заболоцкий – На лестницах
- The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
- Альфред де Мюссе – Намуна
- Омар Хайям – Грех Хайям совершил и совсем занемог
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Listen To The Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Карамзин – Часто здесь в юдоли мрачной
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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.
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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