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:
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- Does Our Spirit Fly Away by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The blanket is same always by Neelam Sinha
- Алексей Жемчужников – Прелюдия к прощальным песням
- Vacant Lot With Pokeweed poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- March by William Morris
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- For All We Have And Are by Rudyard Kipling
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Валерий Брюсов – Есть что-то позорное в мощи природы
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
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
- Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
- CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
- Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
- Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
- Awakening by mike yuan
- At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
- Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
- Apologize by Miraj Patel
- Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
- A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
- 19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Leopard by Stanley Wilkin
- YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
- Woman Work by Maya Angelou
- When You Come by Maya Angelou
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