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:
- O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley
- The White Road Up Athirt The Hill by William Barnes
- Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Федор Сологуб – Там, внизу, костры горели
- Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
- I See Your Beauty by Ronald G. Auguste
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Седакова – Московские картинки
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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