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:
- Robert Burns: Bonie Jean-A Ballad:
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Ольга Ермолаева – На каблуках-то и то к голове удалой
- Rip van Winkle’s dream by Raj Arumugam
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о себе
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ecclefechan:
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- Николай Гумилев – Лесной пожар
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- ah poor moon by Raj Arumugam
- Зинаида Александрова – Таня и волчок
- The Sequel to a Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Greek National Anthem by Rudyard Kipling
- Stanzas. In A Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
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
- Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling
- Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
- Route Marchin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Romulus and Remus by Rudyard Kipling
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
- Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling
- Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
- Recessional (A Victorian Ode) by Rudyard Kipling
- Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
- Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling
- Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Public Waste by Rudyard Kipling
- Prophets at Home by Rudyard Kipling
- Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
- Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
- Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
- Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
- Pagett, M.P. by Rudyard Kipling
- Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- Our Fathers Also 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