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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- Нина Воронель – Одержимые
- Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Dedication poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Алишер Навои – Двух резвых своих газелей, которые нежно спят
- The Wrath of Love by Shawn Ervin
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Winter dusk at the railway halt by Sunil Sharma
- Lessons. by Walt Whitman
- On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
- acts_of_love.html
- Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
- About Wedding Dress
- Not quite dark yet by Yosa Buson
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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