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:
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
- Off the Turnpike poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
- Владимир Британишский – По волхову
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- Dawn by Yosa Buson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Добрый совет
- Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore
- absent-mindedness; or I Dream of Spices by Raj Arumugam
- Spirit whose Work is Done. by Walt Whitman
- Have Lost You
- O my Lord by Rabi’a
- Николай Заболоцкий – Цирк
- A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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