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:
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Новые силы в III Интернационале!.. (РОСТА №891)
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
- Acts Of Love
- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Aquamarine Butterfly by Nina Gabriel
- A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK by Robert Herrick
- София Парнок – Газэлы
- Вероника Тушнова – Мне говорят, нету такой любви
- Владимир Маяковский – Шумики, шумы и шумищи
- A Song of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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