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:
- The Faery Forest by Sara Teasdale
- Epistle to Major Logan by Robert Burns
- Set me FREE by Neelam Sinha
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на день рождения А. А. Плещеевой 14 октября
- In Adoration by Sappho
- Doctors by Rudyard Kipling
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Old Boy poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Федор Сологуб – Кольцо и венок
- Новелла Матвеева – Страна Дельфиния
- Philomela by Sir Philip Sidney
- Шекспир – Я дорого ценю любовь твою – Сонет 87
- Море волнуется, манит к себе
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
- first_light.html
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- drunkenness.html
- do_not_get_angry.html
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- dawned_again.html
- create.html
- conference_swan_beauty.html
- colors_and_sounds.html
- children039s_eyes.html
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- alexander.html
- acts_of_love.html
- a_single_man.html
- a_poem.html
- a_dialogue.html
- a_city_one_wish.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