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 Гумилев – Какое отравное зелье
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Reasons to Survive November by Tony Hoagland
- Наум Коржавин – Есть у тех, кому нету места
- Нина Воронель – С моим житьем, поспешным и тряпичным
- Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
- Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна)
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- The Sailor’s Mother by William Wordsworth
- Eve by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Laus Mariae by Sidney Lanier
- The Twa Sisters poem – Andrew Lang poems
- At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
- Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Олег Григорьев – Дружба
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:
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