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:
- Valentine In Form Of Ballade poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Яков Полонский – Не жди
- Song—A Bottle and Friend by Robert Burns
- The Hour Before Dawn by William Butler Yeats
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Basset-Table : An Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
- Neglecting the Word of God: A Foundational Cause of Lukewarmness
- For My People by Margaret Walker
- The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling
- Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
- Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
- Face To Face by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету К.Д. Бальмонта
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Татаринову (Здорово, брат! Поставь сюда две чаши)
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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