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:
- A Work Of Artifice by Marge Piercy
- Meäry’s Smile by William Barnes
- Владимир Корнилов – Иннокентий Анненский
- Love Lightly
- Lover’s Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling
- Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
- To a Certain Cantatrice. by Walt Whitman
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Khristna And His Flute
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я всё чаще думаю о судьях
- Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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