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 Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Eloisa to Abelard poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Языков – Песни (Мы любим шумные пиры)
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бой с барсом (Отрывок Мцыри)
- I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
- Extinguish Thou My Eyes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Gem Immortality
- Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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