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:
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri
- A Message from my Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di by Wang Wei
- Николай Языков – Родина
- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты хочешь освободиться от тяжести войны?.. (РОСТА №523)
- Adolescence I by Rita Dove
- Юрий Левитанский – Диалог у новогодней елки
- The Greek National Anthem by Rudyard Kipling
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Brooklyn Narcissus by Paul Blackburn
- Paradise Lost: Book 11 poem – John Milton poems
- Олег Бундур – Играю в школьном спектакле
- Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
- Владимир Костров – Поток ушедших лет
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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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