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:
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Death of Knowledge by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- The gypsy song by Sunil Sharma
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- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Ольга Берггольц – Новогодний тост
- After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- My Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
- St Patrick’s Day by Michael McGovern
- Homecoming by Robert Lowell
- Robert Burns: Anna, Thy Charms:
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:
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