A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)
He, who was born in stagnant year
Does not remember own way.
We, kids of Russia’s years of fear,
Remember every night and day.
Years that burned everything to ashes!
Do you bring madness or grace?
The war’s and freedom’s fire flashes
Left bloody light on every face.
We are struck dumb: the toxsin’s pressure
Has made us tightly close lips.
In living hearts, once full of pleasure,
The fateful desert now sleeps.
And let the crying ravens soar
Right over our death-bed,
May those who were striving more,
O God, behold Thy Kingdom’s Great!
A few random poems:
- An Evening by William Allingham
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- O Blush Not So! poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жан, Жак, Гийом, Густав нормальные французы
- Николай Гумилев – Лесной пожар
- Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath
- England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean by William Wordsworth
- The Rose of Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- Eclogue:–The ‘Lotments by William Barnes
- The Hanging Man by Sylvia Plath
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near:
- Epigram—The True Loyal Natives by Robert Burns
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.