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:
- Владимир Британишский – О человеке
- The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
- Captivity poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Чье сердце не горит любовью страстной к милой
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- Slow To Come, Quick Agone by William Barnes
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
- Ad Se Ipsum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- A Poet by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- To You. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Седакова – Цивилизация
- Валерий Брюсов – К финскому народу
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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