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:
- Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Утренняя гимнастика
- Lover’s Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- Mr Anonymous, a life by Raj Arumugam
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- When I Looked At You by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Гумилев – Ночь
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Thrushes by Ted Hughes
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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