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:
- To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Олег Григорьев – Вкусно от меда во рте
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Northern Farmer: New Style poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
- Омар Хайям – Будь мягче к людям
- Love Sonnet XVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Untitled XXV by Yunus Emre
- Signet of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vintage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Сердобольский – Храбрый червячок
- Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century by William Wordsworth
- Private Property poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet (IX) : Flesh o flesh ! The momentous , the mortal , the doomed by Neelam Sinha
- Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works