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:
- Олег Сердобольский – Храбрый червячок
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Низами Гянджеви – В ночи я знаю
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- Rendezvous
- Владимир Высоцкий – Одесские куплеты
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В дальний путь идут корабли
- The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
- Dog racing
- The Judges Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Earth! my Likeness! by Walt Whitman
- Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rainer Maria Rilke
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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