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:
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на слова, заданные мне Хлoeю: миг, картина и дверь
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Сарское село августа 24 дня 1764 года
- Brookwell by William Barnes
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
- Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: First Version
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- Control by Sidney Lanier
- Robert Burns: My Girl She’s Airy: Fragment
- Crusaders by William Wordsworth
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Валерий Брюсов – Из латинской антологии (Нежный стихов аромат услаждает безделие девы)
- Stand-To: Good Friday Morning by Siegfried Sassoon
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. by Walt Whitman
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
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney
- The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- The Otter by Seamus Heaney
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
- The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
- Testimony by Seamus Heaney
- Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney
- Song by Seamus Heaney
- Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
- Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney
- Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
- Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney
- Limbo by Seamus Heaney
- Keeping Going by Seamus Heaney
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