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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствуют недели помощи по всей республике (Главполитпросвет №353)
- Lullaby by William Butler Yeats
- I am Yun Du-seo by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Глазков – Бабье лето
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Buried Love by Sara Teasdale
- Cholera Camp by Rudyard Kipling
- Низами Гянджеви – Тропы мне ни в духан, ни к богу нету
- Михаил Кузмин – Возможно ль: скоро четверть века
- You and I by Roger McGough
- Nell Barnes by William Henry Davies
- Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck by William Shakespeare
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.
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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