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:
- Stars
- Live Inspired With Famous Inspiring Quotes
- Passing Time by Maya Angelou
- A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
- Robert Burns: On A Bank Of Flowers:
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Донецкий шахтер голодает… (РОСТА №619)
- Олег Сердобольский – Угадай, в какой руке
- My angel’s face by Vinko Kalinić
- The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
- Владимир Британишский – На Марсовом поле
- Snow by Walter de la Mare
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Олег Григорьев – Увязался М. за Ж.
- The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
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