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:
- Lines from Endymion poem – John Keats poems
- Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тюрьме Таганской нас стало мало
- Epigoni by Neil Outar
- To the Author of the The Essay on Man by William Somervile
- Freedom of Love poem | L’Union Libre (Ma Femme) – Andre Breton poems
- The Old Poet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о красной шапочке
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Appease by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Thoughts. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Ермолаева – Я так же, как ты, от стыда опускаю ресницы
- Ольга Высотская – Обидчивая кукушка
- Saison Noir by Shaunna Harper
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
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
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