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:
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Burns: The Lass That Made The Bed To Me :
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, шахтер!.. (РОСТА №843)
- The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Love is the Water of Life by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Men Who Wear My Clothes by Vernon Scannell
- Николай Языков – Ау
- Николай Рубцов – Воробей
- Down in the valley by Marcin Malek
- Наум Коржавин – Перевал
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 3 by William Somervile
- Владимир Маяковский – Наврут полный короб… (Главполитпросвет №68)
- Николай Языков – Песня (Когда умру, смиренно совершите)
- Владимир Британишский – Округлы и оголены
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
- Come up from the Fields, Father. by Walt Whitman
- City of Ships. by Walt Whitman
- City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- Chanting the Square Deific. by Walt Whitman
- Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford. by Walt Whitman
- Carol of Words. by Walt Whitman
- Carol of Occupations. by Walt Whitman
- Camps of Green. by Walt Whitman
- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman
- By Broad Potomac’s Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Brother of All, with Generous Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side. by Walt Whitman
- Behold this Swarthy Face. by Walt Whitman
- Behavior. by Walt Whitman
- Beginning my Studies. by Walt Whitman
- Beginners. by Walt Whitman
- Beautiful Women. by Walt Whitman
- Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
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