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:
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Doomes-Day: The Twelfth Houre by William Alexander
- Sonnet to Italy by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Олег Григорьев – Двустишия
- Омар Хайям – Нет ни рая, ни ада, о сердце моё
- Наум Коржавин – Как ты мне изменяла
- Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
- The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On Carron Iron Works:
- Robert Burns: The Minstrel At Lincluden:
- Nube by Manolo Arriola
- Жан де Лафонтен – Совет Мышей
- The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
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
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Twins by Vinko Kalinić
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.