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- Gosen Wakashu
Yado kaete matsu ni mo miezu narinureba tsuraki tokoro no ōku mo aru kana
I moved my lodging and waited, yet you no longer come. How many places there must be that are hard for you to bear.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Omowamu to tanomeshi hito wa kawaraji o towarenu ware ya aranu naruran
The one who made me trust that he would always care for me has surely not changed. Is it I, no longer visited, who have become someone else?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Itazura ni tabitabi shinu to iu mereba au ni wa nani o kaemu to suran
You seem to say, again and again and to no purpose, that you will die. Then what, I wonder, do you intend to give in exchange for meeting me?
Gosen Wakashu - Nakatsukasa
Shinu shinu to kiku kiku dani mo aimineba inochi o itsu no yo ni ka nokosan
Even hearing me say again and again that I will die, you still will not meet me. Until what age, then, could I keep this life of mine?
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Saneakira
E ni kakeru tori tomo hito o miteshi gana onaji tokoro o tsune ni tou beku
I wish I could think of you as the bird painted on the screen, so that, as it stays forever in one place, you too would always come to visit me here.
Gosen Wakashu - Hon'in no Jijū
Mukashi seshi waga kanegoto no kanashiki wa ika ni chigirishi nagori naruran
The promise I made long ago is now so full of grief. What kind of pledge was it, I wonder, that this should be its lingering trace?
Gosen Wakashu - Taira no Sadafun
Utsutsu nite tare chigiriken sadamenaki yumeji ni mayou ware wa ware ka wa
Who was it, in the waking world, who made that pledge to you? Lost on the uncertain path of dreams, am I truly myself?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kurehatori aya ni koishiku arishikaba futamurayama mo koezu nariniki
Like the figured silk of Kurehatori, I longed for you beyond all reason, and so I turned back without ever crossing Futamura Mountain.
Gosen Wakashu - Kiyohara no Morozane
Karakoromo tatsu o oshimishi kokoro koso futamurayama no seki to narikeme
As one cuts a Chinese robe, I grieved that you must set out, and it was surely that grieving heart which became the barrier on Futamura Mountain and held you back.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yume ka tomo omou bekeredo obotsukana nenu ni mishikaba waki zo kanetsuru
I ought to think it was a dream, and yet I am not sure. Since I saw you without having slept, I cannot tell whether it was dream or waking.
Gosen Wakashu - Daughter of Kiyonari
Sora shiranu ame ni mo nururu waga mi kana mikasa no yama o yoso ni kikitsutsu
I am soaked even by a rain the sky knows nothing of—my own tears—as I hear, as of something far from me, that you have gone to Mount Mikasa.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Morotomo ni oru tomo nashi ni uchitokete mienikeru kana asagao no hana
Though we did not pluck it together, it opened all unguarded, and so you have seen it: the morning glory, my face as I woke.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Momoshiki wa ono no e kutasu yama nare ya irinishi hito no otozure mo senu
Is the palace a mountain of the immortals, where time passes until an axe handle rots? The one who went in has never sent me word.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Suzukayama iseo no ama no sutegoromo shionaretari to hito ya miruran
Like the robe a fisher of Ise, beyond Suzuka Hill, has cast aside, will people look at the robe I left with you and see it as worn and steeped in the sea?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Ikade ware hito ni mo towamu akatsuki no akanu wakare ya nani ni nitari to
Somehow I would like to ask someone: this parting before dawn, when we have not had our fill of each other, what on earth is it like?
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Koishiki ni kiekaeritsutsu asatsuyu no kesa wa okiin kokochi koso sene
Fading away again and again for longing, I feel this morning that I could no more rise and stay up than the morning dew could settle and remain.
Gosen Wakashu - Ariwara no Yukihira