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:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Forced by Mayank Sharma
- Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
- Robert Burns: Sappho Redivivus: Fragment
- Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Hither, Hither, Love poem – John Keats poems
- Юнна Мориц – Зимнее
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- A Birthday Present poem – Alfred Austin
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- The Evening Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
- Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
- A Traveller’s Guide to the East Indies by S. K. Kelen
- Inspiration
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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