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:
- Channel Crossing by Sylvia Plath
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- 600 Kilos of Muscle and Bone by Rose Mary Boehm
- Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust by Sir Philip Sidney
- When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci poem – John Keats poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Пленный лев
- Михаил Кузмин – Врезанные в песок заливы
- God Cut the Cord by Raj Napal
- Николай Заболоцкий – Предостережение
- I Shall Forget
- The Broomfield Hill poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Федор Сологуб – Кольцо и венок
- Кондратий Рылеев – Оставь меня, Я здесь молю
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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