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:
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- To Sea by Martin Zakovski
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- The Mead A-Mow’d by William Barnes
- Яков Полонский – Чайка
- Михаил Ломоносов – На сочетание стихов Российских
- Николай Заболоцкий – Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
- At Ease by Walter de la Mare
- The Swans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cradle Song by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Гумилев – Какое отравное зелье
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Светлые ночи
- Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
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