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:
- On Hermocratia (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Lover’s Gifts II: Come to My Garden Walk by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks by Robert Burns
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Языков – Песня (Когда умру, смиренно совершите)
- Nami Danam… poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- Back From Australia poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lady Weeping at the Crossroads by W H Auden
- Ок Мельникова – Карниз
- Dark House by Sylvia Plath
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.