How Hollow Poem by Ono no Komachi
How Hollow
Rating: ★5.0
How hollow
Are tears upon a sleeve
In gemlets;
For mine cannot be dammed
As a surging flood!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: flood
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おろかなる涙ぞそでに玉はなす我はせきあへずたきつせなれば oroka naru namida zo sode ni tama Fa nasu ware Fa sekiaFezu tagituse nareba How hollow Are tears upon a sleeve In gemlets; For mine cannot be dammed As a surging flood! Ono no Komachi 小野小町 [from KOKINSHŪ - KKS XII: 557]