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:
- Sonnet LXVI by William Shakespeare
- A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Forever Closed by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- An Invocation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Молодая поэзия
- Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Libeller’s Self-Reproof:
- Winter Violets poem – Alfred Austin
- To the Same poem – John Milton poems
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Песнь соловья
- Li Po drowns by Raj Arumugam
- On The Eating Of Mice by Russell Edson
- Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not by William Shakespeare
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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