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:
- Rogue Elephant poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Mujer Libanesa I poem – Amir Ibn Tawfik poems | Poems and Poetry
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Grass by Russell Edson
- Robert Burns: Verses To Collector Mitchell :
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- One Step Backward Taken by Robert Frost
- Алишер Навои – Стихотворные жемчужины
- Юлия Друнина – Бинты
- Spain 1873–’74. by Walt Whitman
- Hepatica by Satish Verma
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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