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:
- Федор Сологуб – Астероид
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- Владимир Солоухин – Тропа нацелена в звезду
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Павлова – Толстые икры правителей
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- La Gitana poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
- The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
- Early Love
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- salamis_quot.html
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.
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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