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:
- Every day I bear a burden by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Здравствуй, школа
- Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
- Love and Wine by William Wycherley
- Illusion of Time by Ndue Ukaj
- Владимир Высоцкий – Татуировка
- I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
- On The Astrologers (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- Magic Markers by Rose Mary Boehm
- Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats by Sylvia Plath
- mother.html
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 Hosts
- 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
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