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:
- Bereft by Robert Frost
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- Ок Мельникова – All I want, all I need
- Владимир Маяковский – Никчемное самоутешение
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- In Midas’ Country by Sylvia Plath
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- I’ve Lived To See Desire Vanish poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Guilt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Друнина – Ты рядом
- five moons for earth by Raj Arumugam
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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