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:
- In the Night poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Сарское село августа 24 дня 1764 года
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- Николай Заболоцкий – Одиссей и Сирены
- The Copernican System by Thomas Chatterton
- Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
- All through eternity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Song—Ae fond Kiss by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame:
- Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости
- As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
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
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Ambulances by Philip Larkin
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Wisteria by Philip Levine
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
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