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:
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Чайковский
- How We Heard The Name
- Владимир Маяковский – С винтовкой, но без знания – нет побед (РОСТА № 115)
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- A Snow-White Lily poem – Alfred Austin
- The Moon is a Painter by Vachel Lindsay
- A dragonfly that committed suicide by Preeth Nambiar
- Ок Мельникова – Гасите звёзды
- Владимир Маяковский – Военно-морская любовь
- Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
- Faith by John Oxenham
- Ashes of Soldiers. by Walt Whitman
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