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- Senzai Wakashu
Omoiseku kokoro no uchi no shigarami mo taezu nariyuku namidagawa kana
Even the weir inside my heart that has held back my love can bear no longer the river of my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikamori
Onozukara tsuraki kokoro mo kawaru ya to machimimu hodo no inochi tomogana
If only I could live long enough to wait and see whether, in time, her cold heart might change of its own accord.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōen
Wasuraruru ukina wa satemo tachinikeri kokoro no uchi wa omoiwakutomo
Even so, the painful rumor that I have been forgotten has spread, though in my heart I know well how little there was between us.
Senzai Wakashu - Daughter of Ōe no Korenobu
Yo to tomo ni tsurenaki hito o koigusa no tsuyu koboremasu aki no yūkaze
The dew upon the grass of love I feel for one forever cold spills ever more freely in the autumn evening wind.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akiie
Koishisa o ikaga wa subeki omoedomo mi wa kazu narazu hito wa tsurenashi
What am I to do with this longing? However much I love her, I am of no account, and she is cold.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Moromitsu
Koishinaba ware yue to dani omoiideyo sakoso wa tsuraki kokoro naritomo
If I should die of love, at least remember that it was for you, however cold your heart may be.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekuni
Hitasura ni urami shi mo seji saki no yo ni au made koso wa chigirazarikeme
I will not blame you with all my heart; it must be that in some former life we simply never pledged ourselves so far as to meet.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Iemichi
Masukagami kokoro mo utsuru mono naraba saritomo ima wa aware to ya min
If this clear mirror could reflect the heart as well as the face, then surely now, at least, you would look on mine with tenderness.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira
Ima shibashi soradanome ni mo nagusamete omoitaenuru yoi no tamazusa
For a little while longer I had been comforting myself with empty promises, until the letter that came at nightfall put an end to all my hope.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Somagawa no asakarazu koso chigirishika nado kono kure o hikichigauran
Our vows were deep as the timber-river is deep; why then, this very evening, should you go back on your word?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morikata
Omoiki ya shiji no hashigaki kakitsumete momoyo mo onaji marone sen to wa
Who would ever have thought it: that after marking the carriage shaft-rest night after night, I would sleep alone in my clothes, the same for a hundred nights?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Chigirikoshi koto no tagau zo tanomoshiki tsurasa mo kaku ya kawaru to omoeba
That the vows we made are now broken gives me hope, strange to say; for I think that your coldness, too, may change in just the same way.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekata
Shiraji kashi omoi mo idenu kokoro ni wa kaku wasurarezu ware nagekutomo
You will never know it, with a heart that never even thinks of me, though I grieve like this, unable to forget you.
Senzai Wakashu - Sagami
Tsure mo naku narinuru hito no tamazusa o uki omoide no katami to mo seji
The letters of the one who has grown cold to me, I will not keep even as mementos of these painful memories.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Yawaraka ni nuru yo mo nakute wakarenuru yoyo no tamakura itsuka wasuren
Never at ease, without a single night of restful sleep, we always parted; yet those nights of pillowing on your arm, when could I ever forget them?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Tanabata ni kashitsu to omoishi au koto o sono yo nakina no tachinikeru kana
I thought I had lent the night's meeting to the Weaver Star, yet on that very night a groundless rumor about us has arisen.
Senzai Wakashu - Kodai no Kimi