
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 a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- A Subaltern by Siegfried Sassoon
- My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
- Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Casualty by Winifred Mary Letts
- “My northern blood exults to face” poem – Alfred Austin
- Вера Павлова – Учась любовной науке
- Василий Курочкин – Мчит меня в твои объятья
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица, Мухи и Еж
- Coming Close by Philip Levine
- Ballade Of Amoureuse poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
- Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
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- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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