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:
- Николай Гумилев – Командиру 5-го Александровского полка
- Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath
- A Tulip Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юнна Мориц – Свежий бублик
- A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- Far Within Us #5 by Vasko Popa
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздник урожая
- On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley
- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- Владимир Маяковский – Дядя ЭМЭСПЭО
- Blood And The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Федор Тютчев – Как ни бесилося злоречье
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 War Films by Sir Henry Newbolt
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists by Vachel Lindsay
- Repression of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- The Paint-Kings by Washington Allston
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Eccentricity by Washington Allston
- Art by Washington Allston
- America To Great Britain by Washington Allston
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- The Furies by Weldon Kees
- The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- The Beach by Weldon Kees
- Round by Weldon Kees
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