A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
Those born in obscure times
Do not remember their way.
We, children of Russia’s frightful years
Cannot forget a thing.
Incinerating years!, do you bring tidings
of madness or of hope?
The days of war, the days of freedom
Have left a bloody sheen on our faces.
There is a muteness – the tocsin bell
Has made us close our lips.
In our hearts, once so ardent,
There is a fateful emptiness.
Let the croaking ravens
Take flight above our deathbed –
O Lord, O Lord, may those more worthy than us,
Behold Thy kingdom!
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Дело красноармейцев драться… (РОСТА №336)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Кто мне откликнулся в чаще лесной
- Felix Randal poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: By Allan Stream:
- Epigram—Divine Service at Lamington by Robert Burns
- Book1 Prologue by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper
- Two Songs Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
- Circus In Three Rings by Sylvia Plath
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- Оливер Голдсмит – Эпитафия Неду Пардону
- Know thy SELF by Neelam Sinha
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.