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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ласточка
- The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- Николай Некрасов – Я посягну на неприличность
- The Yeoman of Kent by William Somervile
- I Know From my Bed by Michael Lee Johnson
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- Blue eyes by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Олег Бундур – Жёлудь
- Аля Кудряшева – Молитва
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
- Robert Burns: Love In The Guise Of Friendship:
- Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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