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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странная сказка
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- The Portrait — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владислав Ходасевич – Нет, молодость, ты мне была верна
- Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sleep by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sing Me A Rainbow by Shel Silverstein
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Jean Scott:
- Алексей Плещеев – Ее мне жаль
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пируя праздник возвращенья
- Аля Кудряшева – Слишком уж зол ветер
- Polyphemus poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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