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:
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- Alone in Crowds to Wander On by Thomas Moore
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Kind Word
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
- A Girl Sang a Song poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field. by Walt Whitman
- Lover’s Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool by Rabindranath Tagore
- I Remember by Stevie Smith
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Британишский – У этой матери кормящей
- Владислав Крапивин – Спокойная ночь
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