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:
- Mild is the Parting Year by Walter Savage Landor
- When Bryan Speaks by Vachel Lindsay
- Alone by Walter de la Mare
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- “Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Come In by Robert Frost
- The Silent Lover ii by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Николай Карамзин – Эпиграмма (Я знаю, для чего Крадон)
- San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
- House Of Silence by Philip Levine
- On Pedigree. From Epicharmus by William Cowper
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