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:
- Зинаида Александрова – Утки, беленькие грудки
- Blake’s Victory poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
- Sonnet. On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’ poem – John Keats poems
- Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart by William Cowper
- Владимир Динец – Над степью весенней
- Two Songs
- A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
- Николай Гумилев – На берегу моря
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
- This I Beg To Have by Luis Estable
- Sonnet II: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
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