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:
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair:
- Exodus by Michael Nikoletseas
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Делии
- One Great Christmas Verse, Three Incomparable Gifts
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- Slag by Mark Base
- SOFT MUSIC by Robert Herrick
- The Craftsmen Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Lover’s Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind by Rabindranath Tagore
- Mystic by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Это время любви, словно тёплая осень
- The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- Омар Хайям – Мир любви обрести без терзаний нельзя
- Testimony by Seamus Heaney
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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