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:
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- Николай Гумилев – Куранты любви
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
- He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Возле города Пекина
- To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems
- Sounds of your love poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Иида Дакоцу – Синтоистское святилище у подножия горы в Одани
- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- An Appearance by Sylvia Plath
- Christabel by Samuel Coleridge
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- The Bird of Paradise by William Henry Davies
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.
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