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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой мешечников (РОСТА №525)
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Барак ночью
- I know you will remember ME by Neelam Sinha
- Heaven–Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- At First. To Charlotte Cushman. by Sidney Lanier
- Prison Song
- Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
- Primrose by Patrick Kavanagh
- An Honest Poet’s Life Is Full Of Care by Malcolm Massiah
- Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
- Sonnet. To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall poem – John Keats poems
- Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы
- Юлия Друнина – Ржавчина
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Солнце садится
- Владимир Британишский – Единственный шаман, которого я видел
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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