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:
- The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Был праздник с весельем и танцами
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- Mummy, mummy who invented school? by Raj Arumugam
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister by William Wordsworth
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Предостережение богов Симониду
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
- Taking On by Satish Verma
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отчаяние
- The Travail Of Passion by William Butler Yeats
- Юлий Даниэль – Часовой
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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