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:
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Drunkenness
- On Edges
- Design by Robert Frost
- The Vain Question
- Awed by her splendor by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Алисы
- Snowfall by Steve Troyanovich
- Robert Burns: Tarbolton Lasses, The:
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Ruth by William Wordsworth
- Зинаида Александрова – Невидимка
- Morning-Glory by Siegfried Sassoon
- Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos
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
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
- Hand Dark
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