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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Явление божества
- Robert Burns: The Libeller’s Self-Reproof:
- How Do You Know when Someone is in Love with You?
- Pegasus at Wanlockhead by Robert Burns
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- Стефан Малларме – Гробница Эдгара По
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
- Ольга Берггольц – Ответ
- A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
- The Masks of Love
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dans le Restaurant by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, шахтер!.. (РОСТА №843)
- Another Song Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
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
- Robinson by Weldon Kees
- The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Dead March by Weldon Kees
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Colloquy by Weldon Kees
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Water by Wendell Berry
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- The Silence by Wendell Berry
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
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.
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works