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:
- Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Fringed Gentian poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonet 48 by William Alexander
- E.A. Nov. 6, 1900 by John Oxenham
- laugh to cry by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
- An Ode To Antares
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- The Sick Stockrider
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Один смотрел, другой орал
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
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- My Mother’s Grief
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- I Havent Betrayed You My Hometown
- Eclipse Of Love
- Divided Passion
- Death039s Claim
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Water Strider
- The Infernal Regions
- Honeycomb
- Dark Matter
- Wet City Night
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