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:
- Some Kiss We Want by Rumi
- Владимир Корнилов – Незадача
- Наум Коржавин – Генерал
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Есть много всяких мук – и много я их знаю)
- Валерий Брюсов – Две вазы
- Юрий Верховский – Месяцу, заре, звезде, лазури
- Morte D’Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ревность
- The Sheep and the Bush by William Somervile
- Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam
- A Country Nosegay poem – Alfred Austin
- Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery by William Morris
- The Wanderer by Sara Teasdale
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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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works