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:
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Precious Pearl by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Олег Бундур – Вечером
- Robert Burns: The Day Returns:
- Алексей Плещеев – Знакомые звуки, чудесные звуки
- Ros poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Орлов – Кому что снится?
- The ME inside by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Михаил Кузмин – Звезда Афродиты
- Юлия Жадовская – Говорят придет пора
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:
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