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:
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
- A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
- Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
- Владимир Британишский – Сон: в детстве, весной, в лесу
- Николай Гумилев – Зараза
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Гумилев – За часом час бежит и падает во тьму
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Robert Burns: On Capt. Lascelles:
- Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Al calor de una guitarra by Mara Romero Torres
- The Benefactors Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
- Blame Aphrodite by Sappho
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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