Poetry Friday: Alexander Blok

This week's Poetry Friday was inspired by a recent post in the The New York Review of Books Classics' new blog A Different Stripe: Notes from NYRB Classics.

Sara, in writing about an upcoming poetry reading, posted this photo of Alexander Blok's 1912 poem "Night, street, lamp, drugstore" on a building wall in Leiden. Very cool.

Here's the poem in English translation:

Night, street, lamp, drugstore,

A dull and meaningless light.

Go on and live another quarter century -

Nothing will change. There's no way out.

You'll die - start from the beginning anew,

And all will repeat, just like before:

Night, icy ripples on a canal,

Drugstore, street, lamp.

(Translation and photo from Wikipedia.)

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Let's get this pary started!

Winter is still on Michele's mind at Scholar's Blog. She has posted two children's verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and "The Frost," by Hanna Flagg Gould.

Elaine reviews holiday picture books at Blue Rose Girls.

Adrienne reviews Animal Mischief at What Adrienne Thinks About That.

Susan reviews You Read to Me, I'll Read to You at Chicken Spaghetti.

Jules reviews two rhyming picture books over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

Susan Taylor Brown shares an Andrew Lang fairy poem at Susan Writes.

Nancy's in at Journey Woman with a poem and a scene from Little Women.

Wendy reviews a "delightful collection of Hanukkah poems," Hanukkah Lights, at Blog from the Windowsill.

Kelly Fineman contributes Shakespeare's Sonnet # 130 this week.

Too funny! Liz B. shares the lyrics to "Save Ginny Weasely," by Harry and the Potters, at A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy.

Little Willow is in with "Where the Rainbow Fell," by Jack London, at Slayground.

Mitali contributes Rabindranath Tagore's "Old and New" at Mitali's Fire Escape

Franki shares "A Merry Literary Christmas" at A Year of Reading.

A new kidlit team blog, Wordy Girls, is in! Laura Salas reviews Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water, by Kurt Cyrus. (Four children's writers are behind Wordy Girls, a blog I will include in my December new blog roundup.)

This just in! Cloudscome has posted a Richard Wright haiku at A Wrung Sponge.

And, Becky at Farm School has two entries this week: A poem for Hanukkah, by A.M. Klein, and a favorite of E.B. White's, "pity the poor spiders," by Don Marquis.