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:
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Сологуб – Солнце, которому больно
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- Hush’d be the Camps To-day. by Walt Whitman
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Зинаида Александрова – Венок
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson: A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God.
- Polly’s Tree by Sylvia Plath
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Land by Rudyard Kipling
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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