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:
- Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner:
- Poem on Sensibility by Robert Burns
- A Grave by Marianne Moore
- Witch Burning by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- Зинаида Александрова – Мне рукою машет маленький сынок
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Юдифь
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- Examination at the Womb-Door by Ted Hughes
- Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
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
- Total Recount by Pamela Griffiths
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- The Sea and the Shadow by Paul Blackburn
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- The Blue Guitar by P. K. Page
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
- Teasing by Pamela Griffiths
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- Single Traveller by P. K. Page
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
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