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Sagami
Even when my sleeves,
Through my hate and misery,
Never once are dry,--
For such love my name decays:
How deplorable my lot!
Sanjo-no-In
If, against my wish,
In the world of sorrows still,
I for long should live;--
How then I would pine, alas!
For this moon of middle-night.
Ryozen Hoshi
In my loneliness
From my humble home gone forth,
When I looked around,
Everywhere it was the same;--
One lone, darkening autumn eve.
Dainagon Tsunenobu
When the evening comes,
From the rice leaves at my gate
Gentle knocks are heard;
And, into my round rush-hut,
Autumn's roaming breeze makes way.
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Though your promise was
"Like the dew on moxa plant"
And, to me, was life;
Yet, alas! the year has passed
Even into autumn time.
Sutoku-In
Though a swift stream be
By a rock met and restrained
In impetuous flow,
Yet, divided, it speeds on,
And at last unites again.
Taiken Mon-In no Horikawa
If it be for aye
That he wills our love should last?
Ah! I do not know!
And this morn my anxious thoughts,
Like my black hair, are confused.
Saigyo Hoshi
Is it then the moon
That has made me sad, as though
It had bade me grieve?
Lifting up my troubled face,--
Ah! the tears, the (mournful) tears!
Shokushi Naishinno
Life! Thou string of gems!
If thou art to end, break now.
For, if yet I live,
All I do to hide ( my love)
May at last grow weak (and fail).
Go-Kyogoku no Sessho Daijodaijin
On a chilling mat,
Drawing close my folded quilt,
I must sleep alone,
While all through the frosty night
Sounds a cricket's (forlorn chirp).
Gon-Chunagon Sadaie
Like the salt sea-weed,
Burning in the evening calm,
On Matsuo's shore,
All my being is aglow,
Waiting one who does not come.
Go Toba-no-In
For some men I grieve;
Some men are hateful to me;
And this wretched world
To me, weighted down with care,
Is a place of misery.
Juntoku-In
O Imperial House!
When I think of former days,
How I long for thee!
More than e'en the clinging vines
Hanging 'neath thine ancient eaves. |
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