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:
- His Dream by William Butler Yeats
- Montefiore poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Костров – Поплачь, любимая, поплачь
- Владимир Маяковский – Теоретики
- From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot
- At His Grave
- Malmaison poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Fool by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Brook in the City by Robert Frost
- Elixer Vitæ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Imitated From The Japanese by William Butler Yeats
- Яков Полонский – Не жди
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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