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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гораций
- Untitled XVII by Yunus Emre
- Николай Карамзин – Граф Гваринос
- The Usurpation
- Year of Meteors, 1859 ’60. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- This Dog by Rabindranath Tagore
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Il bacio
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Британишский – Ты шепчешь мне
- Wisdom by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Гумилев – Злобный гений, царь сомнений
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works