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:
- The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Ode to Fanny poem – John Keats poems
- Corn Grinders by Sarojini Naidu
- Amoraphobia by Shaunna Harper
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Evasion. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
- Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Jamie, Come Try Me:
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
- Snowbanks North of the House by Robert Bly
- A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
- Стефан Малларме – Дар поэмы
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не хочу, чтоб свет узнал
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
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
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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