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:
- “My soul is sunk in all–suffusing shame” poem – Alfred Austin
- A Dog After Love by Yehuda Amichai
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Desperation by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Robert Burns: The Mauchline Lady: Fragment
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
- Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Free Men Of God by John Oxenham
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
- Геннадий Айги – ЧИТАЯ НОРВИДА
- Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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