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 Life Theoretic poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- The New Path
- The Basset-Table : An Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Владимир Корнилов – Разговор
- Константин Бальмонт – Молитва последняя
- On the Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- What would I do without this world by Samuel Beckett
- Over The Hill From The Poor-House by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Steeple-Jack by Marianne Moore
- dance of life by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сознание
- Mulholland’s Contract by Rudyard Kipling
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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)
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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