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:
- Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
- The Fish by William Butler Yeats
- All These I Loved by Rabindranath Tagore
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- The Couriers by Sylvia Plath
- Old Homeless Man by Walter William Safar
- A Memory by William Allingham
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
- Николай Заболоцкий – Детство
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is by Rabindranath Tagore
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не называй далекой бездной
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
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
- In spring and summer winds may blow by Walter Savage Landor
- Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low by Walter Savage Landor
- Proud Word You Never Spoke by Walter Savage Landor
- God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
- Remain! by Walter Savage Landor
- I Strove with None by Walter Savage Landor
- Absence by Walter Savage Landor
- Dirce by Walter Savage Landor
- Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
- F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor
- Finis by Walter Savage Landor
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
- Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
- Morning Poem #59 by Wanda Phipps
- Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps
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