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:
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
- Remorseful Apology by Robert Burns
- Love Sonnet XXVI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
- Conscience by Walter William Safar
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гармония
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- Untitled XXIV by Yunus Emre
- Eclogue:–John An’ Thomas by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Несбывшееся
- Dawnlight On The Sea
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:
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.
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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