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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Цветок
- I threaded a garland with the memories of a spring… by Preeth Nambiar
- Reading by William Marr
- The Gardener XIX: You Walked by Rabindranath Tagore
- God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. by Stephen Crane
- Олег Бундур – Дождь
- All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
- Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
- Adam by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Railroad by William Barnes
- Dog’s love by Vinko Kalinić
- A Father’s Hands by Scott Ransopher
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
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
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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