Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15
“You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up.”
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 34
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On this moonless night.
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My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up." by Ono no Komachi?
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