Poems by Alexander Block
(Alexander Blok poetry)
In English translation
(Russian originals, you’d have to switch to Russian, opens in a new tab)
Alexander Block, poems by Alexandre Block, also rendered as Blok and Alexandr Blok, in English translation. Alexander Block is a leading poet of the Russian symbolism movement, a literary giant of the fin de siècle through the Russian civil war period, though like many poets he, alas, doesn’t translate well.
A few random poems:
- Epistle to Major Logan by Robert Burns
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
- Grand Slam Night poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: On A Swearing Coxcomb:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
- Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- The Holy Grail poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- Ольга Берггольц – Разведчик
- Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Толстой Алексей Николаевич стихи: Читать стихотворения Алексея Толстого – Список произведений, стихов поэта на Poetry Monster
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- I love you
- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- Dog racing
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Who of you ever
- Аnything can happen
- Outside the Window, Snow
- You must once
- February 23
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Море волнуется, манит к себе
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Кипение
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Каждый день и каждый миг судьбу благодарю
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