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:
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- To His Watch poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Deserter by Winifred Mary Letts
- Delia: An Ode by Robert Burns
- The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Nearly A Valediction by Marilyn Hacker
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
- As Toilsome I Wander’d. by Walt Whitman
- Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
- I a soul by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ Хренова о Кузнецкстрое и о людях Кузнецка
- On The Eating Of Mice by Russell Edson
- The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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