Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15
“This night of no moon
There is no way to meet him.
I rise in longing—
My breast pounds, a leaping flame,
My heart is consumed in fire.”
Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78
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