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- Kokin Wakashu
Wabinureba shiite wasuremu to omoedomo yume to iu mono zo hitodanome naru
Weary with grief, I try hard to forget you, and yet dreams are things that keep raising my hopes again.
Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Okikaze
Warinaku mo nete mo samete mo koishiki ka kokoro o izuchi yaraba wasuremu
How helplessly I long for you, whether I am sleeping or awake! Where could I send my heart so that I might forget you?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koishiki ni wabite tamashii mayoinaba munashiki kara no na ni ya nokoramu
If, tormented by longing, my soul should leave my body and wander away, would I be remembered only by the name of an empty shell?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi kouru namida shi nakuwa karakoromo mune no atari wa iro moenamashi
If it were not for the tears I weep in longing for you, the breast of my fine robe would surely be burning red with the fire of love.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Yo to tomo ni nagarete zo yuku namidagawa fuyu mo kooranu minawa narikeri
The river of my tears flows on endlessly, as long as the world lasts; it is a stream of foam that does not freeze even in winter.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Yumeji ni mo tsuyu ya okuramu yomosugara kayoeru sode no hichite kawakanu
Does dew fall even on the road of dreams? The sleeves I wore as I went to you all night long are soaked and will not dry.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Hakanakute yume ni mo hito o mitsuru yo wa ashita no toko zo okiukarikeru
On those nights when, fleetingly, I see my love at least in a dream, how painful it is to rise from my bed in the morning.
Kokin Wakashu - Sosei Hoshi
Itsuwari no namida nariseba karakoromo shinobi ni sode wa shiborazaramashi
If these tears were false, I would not be secretly wringing out the sleeves of my robe where no one can see.
Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadanobu
Ne ni nakite hichinishikadomo harusame ni nurenishi sode to towaba kotaemu
My sleeves are soaked because I wept aloud, but if anyone asks, I shall answer that they are wet with the spring rain.
Kokin Wakashu - Oe no Chisato
Waga gotoku mono ya kanashiki hototogisu toki zo to mo naku yo tada nakuramu
Cuckoo, are you sad just as I am? Is that why you keep crying out through the night, no matter the hour?
Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
Satsukiyama kozue o takami hototogisu naku ne sora naru koi mo suru kana
In the hills of the fifth month, the treetops are so high that the cuckoo's cry seems to come from the sky; so too my heart is lost in the sky, in the love that I now feel.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Akigiri no haruru toki naki kokoro ni wa tachii no sora mo omÅenaku ni
My heart is like the autumn mist that never clears; I can hardly even tell whether I am standing or sitting.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Mushi no goto koe ni tatete wa nakanedomo namida nomi koso shita ni nagarure
I do not cry aloud as the insects do, yet my tears alone keep flowing, hidden deep within.
Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Aki nareba yama toyomu made naku shika ni ware otorame ya hitori nuru yo wa
It is autumn, and the deer cry until the hills resound; yet would I weep any less than they, on the nights I sleep alone?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aki no no ni midarete sakeru hana no iro no chigusa ni mono o omou koro kana
Like the many colors of the flowers blooming wildly in the autumn fields, my thoughts of love are scattered in a thousand ways these days.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Hitori shite mono o omoeba aki no yo no inaba no soyo to iu hito no naki
When I brood over love all alone, there is no one to say "So it is" to me, as the rice leaves rustle softly on an autumn night.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune