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:
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- Longing by Sara Teasdale
- Mind Extempore by Pawan Kumar
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Attadale, West Highlands by William Ernest Henley
- To an Early Daffodil poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Passing Breeze by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юлия Друнина – Страна Юность
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- Grandeur Of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 by Walt Whitman
- Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война
- Карина, моей души ты яркий свет
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
- Dews of Silence by Raju Baruah
- Catching the Rain by Raj Napal
- Blame by Raj Napal
- Better Be by Raj Napal
- Be Prepared by Raj Napal
- An empty photo album by Raj Napal
- Your Dog Dies by Raymond Carver
- Written Manna by Rangam Chiru
- What The Doctor Said by Raymond Carver
- Tyburn by Ramesh Anand
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- The Passing Cloud by Rashmi Sreekumar
- The Mountain Crumbles by Rashmi
- The Moon’s Truth (before the war) by Reena Ribalow
- The Heart Chirps by Ramesh Anand
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- The Best Time Of The Day by Raymond Carver
- Stupid by Raymond Carver
- Still Life by Reena Ribalow
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works