A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
Don’t fear death in earthly travels.
Don’t fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads.
Your death will come to you, and never
You shall be, else, a slave of life,
Just waiting for a dawn’s favor,
From nights of poverty and strife.
She’ll build with you a common law,
One will of the Eternal Reign.
And you are not condemned to slow
And everlasting deadly pain.
A few random poems:
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- Валерий Брюсов – Это матовым вечером мая
- Федор Сологуб – Под сению креста рыдающая мать
- The Masks of Love
- Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- Джон Мильтон – Написано в дни, когда ожидался штурм Лондона
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.