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:
- Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Владимир Британишский – Еретик
- The Editor’s Guests by Will McKendree Carleton
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
- A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved by William Cowper
- Илона Грошева – Когда приходит Дима в парк
- Владимир Высоцкий – Солдат и привидение
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- The Odyssey poem – Andrew Lang poems
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- One Sweet White Light
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- Василий Жуковский – К кн. Вяземскому и В.Л.Пушкину
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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)
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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