On A Summer Night Comments

this Tsurayuki's waka is from a poetry competition held by the Empress, in the Kanpyô period

夏の夜のふすかとすれば郭公なくひとこゑにあくるしののめ natu no yo no Fusu ka to sureba Fototogisu naku Fito kowe ni akuru sinonome On a summer night, I wonder if I should to bed, and then A cuckoo Gives a single cry and Bright dawn breaks. Ki no Tsurayuki - 紀貫之 Kokinshū - KKS III: 156