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:
- The sky has never seen such a moon
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
- Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…)
- Which way does the wind blow? by Thomas J Camp
- The January Birds by Maurice Riordan
- Владимир Маяковский – Новогодние поздравления (РОСТА №704)
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Михаил Лермонтов – Что толку жить!.. Без приключений
- Зинаида Александрова – Давайте, девочки, купаться
- Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу
- Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
