A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
The faithless shadows of day are running
And high and clear is the call of bells,
Steps of the church are blazed as with the lightning,
Their stones are alive and wait for your light steps.
You’ll here pass and touch the chilly stone,
That’s dressed in awful sanity of span,
And let the flower of spring be thrown
Here, in this dark, before the eyes of saint.
The rose shadows in misty darkness grow,
And high and clear is the call of bells,
The darkness lays on steps, such old and low —
I’m set in light — I wait for dear steps.

A few random poems:
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
- After Forever by Mark Miller
- Solomon And The Witch by William Butler Yeats
- Алексей Ржевский – Ода Императору Петру Феодоровичу
- The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
- Шарль Бодлер – Жажда небытия
- Someone Ate The Baby by Shel Silverstein
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Гиппиус – Закон чего? – закона нет
- Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
- Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
Alexander Blok (1880-1921), also Block, was a Russian poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. A classic of Russian literature.