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:
- To an Early Daffodil poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare
- He comes poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Он не вернулся из боя
- Robert Burns: A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter: The First Instance That Entitled Him To The Venerable Appellation Of Father
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Владимир Маяковский – Две культуры
- Will Remain Unseen by Vasil Slavov
- In the End by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Британишский – Этот вечер
- He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged by Philip Larkin
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно
- Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
- Sunshine by Vachel Lindsay
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:
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works