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:
- Вера Павлова – Нет, нет, не ревность
- Такахама Кёси – Ливень прошел
- Easter Hymn
- Psalm 85 poem – John Milton poems
- The Elphin Nourrice poem – Andrew Lang poems
- On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Федор Сологуб – Своеволием рока
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
- first_verse.html
- Sin and Prayer by Satish Verma
- The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner by William Butler Yeats
- A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779 by William Cowper
- An Epitaph poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Два клада
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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