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:
- Alone in Crowds to Wander On by Thomas Moore
- Николай Языков – П. В. Киреевскому (Ты крепкий, праведный стоятель)
- The Defeat of Youth poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Gem Immortality
- Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача
- To A Clergyman On The Death Of His Lady by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт
- Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes: Second Version
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- The Louse-Hunters poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Poem Stories
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.