Ki no Tsurayuki Poems

For you, my love
Brings forth tears, did it not
My Chinese robe
About the breast
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Their first flowered
Home have they left,
These chrysanthemum blooms,
And their hues too
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Though I dip
Within the wave
I cannot search them out:
With the gusting of the wind,
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The woodcutters
Are felling palace logs all day, it seems,
Leg-wearying
From the mountains echoes
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Argent pearls
Did my tears seem
Yet with the passing years
Chinese crimson
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A cuckoo to
A man on Pine Mount
Calls and so
Suddenly within me
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From cupped hands
Droplets cloud
The mountain spring-
It's not enough-as from you
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Beneath the mighty
Gods' enclosing fence
Creeps a vine:
Unable to withstand the Autumn,
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Did some lodge here
And leave for a keepsake
Wisteria trousers? Thoroughworts,
Impossible to forget,
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From this year on
I'll deeply feel the spring
With these cherry blossoms.
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