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:
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- From the morrow poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
- Death In The Lounge Bar by Vernon Scannell
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet 12
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
- Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
- Sleep
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- Birth Story by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- Владимир Степанов – Наша Армия
- The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
- Оливер Голдсмит – Пыл упований людям дан
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- Hai Kou Unpublished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