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:
- Джон Китс – Четыре разных времени в году
- The White Cliffs
- SCARY DANCE by Satish Verma
- Sakal Bun poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Come by Sara Teasdale
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Владимир Корнилов – Анафемский сон
- Геннадий Айги – ЧИТАЯ НОРВИДА
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- How Do You Know when Someone is in Love with You?
- Before The Game by Vasko Popa
- Winter dusk at the railway halt by Sunil Sharma
- Владимир Маяковский – Что значило “празднование новогоднее”?.. (РОСТА №672)
- The Old Cumberland Beggar by William Wordsworth
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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)
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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