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:
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- Father by Philip Levine
- Development of Indian English Poetry
- Илья Эренбург – Я помню, давно уже я уловил
- Aliens poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns
- Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree by P. K. Page
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Тютчев – К Н.
- Dawn by Yosa Buson
- Владимир Маяковский – Не предаваясь “большевистским бредням” (Красный перец)
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