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:
- The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Две прелестницы
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Омар Хайям – Да пребудет вино неразлучно с тобой
- Madonna of the Evening Flowers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Captain H—–d, of the 65th Regiment by Phillis Wheatley
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind by Stephen Crane
- I am He that Aches with Love. by Walt Whitman
- Whoever Comes From The Earth by Nelly Sachs
- nominalism_is_a_liquid_kuhi.html
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Halloween by Mac Hammond
- Федор Сологуб – Слепой судьбе противореча
- Impromptu on Carron Iron Works by Robert Burns
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
- Loneliness is a prison by Vladimir Marku
- Little angel by Vladimir Marku
- Let Him In by Vishnu J Mohan
- I Will by Vishü Rita Krocha
- I turn my head by Vladimir Marku
- Her smile by Vladimir Marku
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Friends by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Forget-me-nots by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
- Eve of spring by Vladimir Marku
- Eavesdropping myself by Vladimir Marku
- Desperation by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Demon by Vladimir Marku
- Breather by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Aquarium epoch by Vladimir Marku
- After Midnight by Walid Saba
- Adieu…, adieu…. by Vladimir Marku
- Who’s Who by W H Auden
- We’re Late by W H Auden
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