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:
- I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Моссукно
- Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
- Омар Хайям – День каждый услаждай вином
- Goddess In The Wood, The by Rupert Brooke
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
- Monadnock in Early Spring poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Awa’ Whigs, Awa’:
- Алексей Толстой – Стасюлевич и Маркевич
- Валерий Брюсов – Две испанских песенки
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame:
- A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
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
- Spring by Ramesh Anand
- Remember the Tick by RD McManes
- re_word by RD McManes
- Rain by Reena Ribalow
- Carnal Knowledge by Rebecca Elson
- We Astronomers by Rebecca Elson
- This Morning by Raymond Carver
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- No Chance To A New Life by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
- Jobless by Rashmi
- I’m not listening by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Flutter by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Fear by Raymond Carver
- Drinking While Driving by Raymond Carver
- Circulation by Raymond Carver
- Butterfly by Ramesh Anand
- Bobber by Raymond Carver
- Autumn by Ramesh Anand
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works