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:
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ссора Собак с Кошками и Кошек с Мышами
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Быт
- Владимир Маяковский – Про Тита и Ваньку
- Николай Языков – Поэт (Радушно рабствует поэту)
- Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Withering Of The Boughs by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Chevalier’s Lament:
- My Mother by Claude McKay
- Владимир Маяковский – Чугунные штаны
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea by William Shakespeare
- Джон Мильтон – О Шекспире
- Elegy on Stella by Robert Burns
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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