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:
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- WHAT ASYLUM! by Satish Verma
- Николай Огарев – Свисти ты, о ветер, с бессонною силой
- A Border Burn poem – Alfred Austin
- Ave Adonai poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Как прекрасно твое имя
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- The Flood In Spring by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Ольга Повещенко – Фотограф смотрит в объектив
- Come In by Robert Frost
- On Colley Cibber poem – Alexander Pope
- the_christening.html
- The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works