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:
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- A Little Bird poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Заболоцкий – Приглашение на пир
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я. П. Полонскому
- Statistic by Shivam Pandya
- Robert Burns: A Grace After Dinner, Extempore:
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
- Godo Is Not Coming by Ndue Ukaj
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105. To-night ungather’d let us leave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Альфред де Мюссе – Друзья мои! Когда умру я
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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