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:
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак
- Валерий Брюсов – Голубое, голубое
- Владимир Набоков – Санкт-Петербург
- “Come listen, ye students of every degree” by Tobias Smollett
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
- Love and Law by Vachel Lindsay
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
- Олег Сердобольский – Перемена
- Blue Glass by Ross D Tyler
- An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe by William Cowper
- Олег Григорьев – Дачник
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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