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:
- Иван Киуру – Звездный полет
- To Sayf Al Dawla
- Last Wish by Théophile Gautier
- The Cat And The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever by Robert Burns
- The Dinner-Party poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Phantom by Samuel Coleridge
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Дева за клавесином
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- In The Arc Of Your Mallet by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Луговской – Радость
- A Different September by Steve Sant
- Николай Гумилев – Заклинание
- A Prophecy. February 1807 by William Wordsworth
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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