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:
- Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- The Call Of The Far — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Степанов – Мышь и кошка
- Омар Хайям – Кто розу нежную любви привил
- Twilight by Shaunna Harper
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Copla Suelta: The One and the Same Dream by T. Wignesan
- love growing by Raj Arumugam
- Низами Гянджеви – Я бросил молодость в пожар моей любви
- Ольга Седакова – Только время доходит сюда
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ни розового сада
- The Frog’s Choice by William Somervile
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
