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“The flowers and my love
Passed away under the rain,
While I idly looked upon them
Where is my yester-love?”

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Źródło: Yone Noguchi's [The Spirit of Japanese Poetry] (1914), p. 112

“So much I have learned:
the blossom that fades away,
its color unseen,
is the flower in the heart
of one who lives in this world.”

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Źródło: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 174

“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.”

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Źródło: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78

“Although I come to you constantly
over the roads of dreams,
those nights of love
are not worth one waking touch of you.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15

“Imperceptible
It withers in the world,
This flower-like human heart.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955), p. 46

“He does not come.
Tonight in the dark of the moon
I wake wanting him.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart chars.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15

“Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.”

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Źródło: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35

“I fell asleep thinking of him,
and he came to me.
If I had known it was only a dream
I would never have awakened.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 14

“You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 34

“In this forlorn state
I find life dreary indeed:
if a stream beckoned,
I would gladly cut my roots
and float away like duckweed.”

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Źródło: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 206

“Following the roads
Of dream to you, my feet
Never rest. But one glimpse of you
In reality would be
Worth all these many nights of love.”

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Źródło: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 33

“Autumn nights, it seems,
are long by repute alone:
scarcely had we met
when morning's first light appeared,
leaving everything unsaid.”

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Źródło: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 142

“So lonely am I
My body is a floating weed
Severed at the roots.
Were there water to entice me,
I would follow it, I think.”

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Źródło: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 79

“Thinking about him
I slept, only to have him
Appear before me—
Had I known it was a dream,
I should never have wakened.”

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Źródło: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78

“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”

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trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)

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