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:
- Алишер Навои – Скиталец горький, страсть таю я
- We know this much by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare
- Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare
- A man said to the universe: by Stephen Crane
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- What a beautiful world by Vladimir Marku
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Jones’s Porvate Argyment by Sidney Lanier
- The Isle Of Portland poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Степанов – Волнушки
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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