Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.

A few random poems:
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- The Waist of Time by The Waist of Time
- Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переселение
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – В России голод… (Главполитпросвет № 236)
- Cuchulan’s Fight With The Sea by William Butler Yeats
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Набоков – Воскресение мёртвых
- Meg Merrilies poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton Mill:
- Fist by Philip Levine
- Алексей Плещеев – Лучше гибель без возврата
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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