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:
- Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- First Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- The Cat’s Song by Marge Piercy
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
- Yoga and Love – Part I
- On Mr. Gay poem – Alexander Pope
- John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore by William Butler Yeats
- On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper
- Омар Хайям – Мы влюбчивая голь, здесь нету мусульман
- Matter For Gratitude poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Milagros Retenidos poem – Ana Chig poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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