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:
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- Жан де Лафонтен – Безумец и Мудрец
- Love is Reckless by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Карамзин – Пророчество на 1799 год, найденное в бумагах Нострадамуса
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- A Message from my Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di by Wang Wei
- Deep In The Night by Sara Teasdale
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Paralipomemnon
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
- Robert Burns: To A Mountain Daisy: On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Great are the Myths. by Walt Whitman
- The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Высотская – Я зубы стисну, губы закушу
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