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:
- Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Наш сад
- Олег Григорьев – Мотылек
- Николай Заболоцкий – В тайге
- Владимир Маяковский – В Париже совещание “живых сил” (РОСТА №851)
- Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Heaven–Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Олег Григорьев – Полосатая оса
- An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Е. А. Карлгоф
- To The Don poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Temple poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- I waited by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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