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:
- Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 3 из 15
- Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- Aftermath by Sylvia Plath
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
- From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Jean Scott:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Старый Кот и Мышонок
- I’m Sexy and I Know It by Aiyah De Torres
- Arcades poem – John Milton poems
- For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker
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
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns
- Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns
- Epitaph for Robert Aiken by Robert Burns
- Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
- Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns
- A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns
- A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
- White Horses by Rudyard Kipling
- When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
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
