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:
- An Argument by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин”
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Tartary by Walter de la Mare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- The Cap And Bells by William Butler Yeats
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- XI: Some Verses: To His Worthy Friend Master Walter Quin by William Alexander
- Альфред де Мюссе – Люси
- Олег Чупров – Тают в сумраке лица
- Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
- Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman
- On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Sinfonia Eroica poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
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)
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