Alexander "Sasha" Volokh

Favorite poems

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
- A v knigakh ia posledniuiu stranitsu
- Dvadtsat' pervoe. Noch'. Ponedel'nik.
- I kogda drug druga proklinali
- Ia nauchilas' prosto, mudro zhit'
- Ia prishla k poetu v gosti
- Ia prishla siuda, bezdel'nitsa
- Lotova zhena
- Primorskii sonet
- Prosypat'sia na rassvete
- Requiem
- Stikhi o Peterburge
- Trinadtsat' strochek
- Zemlia khotia i ne rodnaia
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
- Crepuscule
- Le pont Mirabeau
- Nuit rhenane
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
- Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone
Konstanin Bal'mont (1867-1942)
- Ia mechtoiu lovil ukhodiashchie teni
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
- Harmonie du soir
- La musique
- Le gout du neant
- Recueillement
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
- To come: from A Moral Alphabet
- The Yak
- The Llama
- Tarantella
Gottfried Benn (1886-1956)
- Ein Wort
William Blake (1757-1827)
- The Chimney Sweeper
- Songs of Innocence: Introduction
- The Lamb
- London
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921)
- Noch', ulitsa, fonar', apteka
- Ona prishla s moroza
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Caliban upon Setebos
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- My Last Duchess
Ivan A. Bunin (1870-1953)
- Pesn' o Gaiavate: Vstuplenie
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
- When We Two Parted
Lewis Carroll (1832-1899)
- A-Sitting on a Gate
- Hiawatha's Photographing
- Rules and Regulations
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904)
- The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
Catullus (c. 87 B.C.-c. 54 B.C.)
- Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
- Adeste, hendecasyllabi
- Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me
- Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle
- Odi et amo
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
- To Rosemounde
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
- Truth
- Womanly Noblesse (search for the title on the page; there's no blank line before the title so it doesn't even look like a separate poem)
- Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
- The Wife of Bath's Prologue (especially read to line 480)
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
- A-Sitting on a Tell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Kubla Khan
ee cummings (1894-1962)
- anyone lived in a pretty how town
- love is more thicker than forget (a bit down on the screen)
- somewhere i have never travelled
Grace Stricker Dawson
- To a Friend
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- The Reticent Volcano Keeps
- Hope is the Thing with Feathers
- My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
- After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
- She Sights a Bird -- She Chuckles
Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560)
- Heureux qui comme Ulysse
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- The Naming of Cats
Louis Emie (1900-1967)
- L'ange
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- The Road Not Taken
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Fire and Ice
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
- La monja gitana
- Romance de la luna, luna
Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945)
- Ona
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
- The Persian Version
George Herbert (1593-1633)
- The Collar
- The Pulley
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- God's Grandeur
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
- Loveliest of Trees
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Ce que dit la bouche d'ombre
- Les Djinns
- Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne
- Sonnez, sonnez toujours, clairons de la pensee
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
- Eighth Air Force
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- If --
Jules Laforgue (1806-1887)
- A la memoire d'une chatte naine que j'avais
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Lines to a Young Lady
- The Jumblies
- The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Henry S. Leigh (1837-1883)
- My Three Loves
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
- Factory Windows Are Aways Broken (scroll down)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Curfew
- Evangeline (introduction)
- The Song of Hiawatha (introduction)
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
- Llanto de las virtudes y coplas por la muerte de don Guido
Clement Marot (1496-1544)
- De sa grande amye
Middle English Lyrics
- Alysoun
- Love in Paris
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
- Dirge Without Music
A.A. Milne (1882-1956)
- Disobedience
- The Dormouse and the Doctor
- The Four Friends (top of the page)
- King John's Christmas
O.V. de L. Milosz (1877-1939)
- Chanson d'automne
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
- I Yield to My Learned Brother
- Let George Do It, if You Can Find Him
- One from One Leaves Two
- So That's Who I Remind Me Of
Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855)
- Fantaisie
- Une allee du Luxembourg
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881)
- Ode (but only the first three stanzas are good)
Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997)
- Akh, chto-to mne ne veritsia, chto ia, brat, voeval
- Bystro molodost' prokhodit, dni schastlivye kradiot
- Lesnoi val's
- Pesenka o Lionke Koroliove
- Polnochnyi trolleibus
- Zaezzhyi muzykant
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
- Resume
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
- Godami kogda-nibud' v zale kontsertnoi...
A.B. "Banjo" Paterson (1864-1941)
- Clancy of the Overflow
- The Man from Snowy River
Georges Perec (1936-1982)
- Sois soumis, mon chagrin (scroll down on the screen; it's next to Charles Baudelaire's "Recueillement," which it's based on)
- Accords
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Annabel Lee
- The Bells
- The Conqueror Worm
- The Raven
- Ulalume -- A Ballad
- Alone
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
- Madonna
- Mednyi vsadnik: Peterburgskaia povest'
- Ruslan i Liudmila: Vstuplenie (especially read the first two paragraphs of the first main section)
- from Eugene Onegin (especially I.5 through I.8, I.46, I.50)
- Uznik
Raymond Queneau (1903-1976)
- To come: Il pleut
- To come: L'explication des metaphores
- Alexandrins from Exercices de style (a bit down on the screen but the other bits are related too)
- Je crains pas ca tellment (scroll down a screen)
- To come: Ixatnu siofnnut i avay
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
- When the Frost is on the Punkin
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
- Herbst
- Herbsttag
Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
- I Have a Rendezvous with Death
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- from Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 (St. Crispin's Day speech)
- Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth")
- Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")
Langdon Smith (1858-1908)
- Evolution
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)
- To come: Serai-je un jour celui qui lui-meme mena
John D. Swain
- Would I Be Shrived?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]: click here for the frame narrative, and in the middle, insert this
- Ulysses
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Fiodor I. Tiutchev (1803-1873)
- List'ia
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
- Dans l'interminable ennui de la plaine
- Il pleure dans mon coeur
- Impression de printemps
Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)
- Le mont des oliviers (especially part I)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- O Captain! My Captain
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Lines Written in Early Spring
William Butler Yeats (1865-1950)
- Lines Written in Dejection
- The Song of Wandering Aengus

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