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:
- Илья Эренбург – О Москве
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Владимир Маяковский – Сплетник
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The house where I was born (06) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Вероника Тушнова – В чем отказала я тебе
- On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Sweet Briars of the Stairways by Vachel Lindsay
- A Winter Ride poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
- Basic Overhaul by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
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
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- Lying Down by Robert Desnos
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
- Zero by Robert Creeley
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- The Way by Robert Creeley
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- The Rain by Robert Creeley
- The Mirror by Robert Creeley
- The Innocence by Robert Creeley
- The Conspiracy by Robert Creeley
- The Carnival by Robert Creeley
- Song by Robert Creeley
- Something by Robert Creeley
- Other by Robert Creeley
- Myself by Robert Creeley
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