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- Gosen Wakashu
Koenu chō na o na uramiso suzukayama itodo machikaku naran to omou o
Do not resent the rumor that we have crossed Mount Suzuka; I mean to come ever nearer to you.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Waga tame ni katsu wa tsurashi to miyamagi no kori tomo korinu kakaru koi seji
Seeing that you are cold to me, I have had my fill, as one fells the trees of the deep mountains; I have learned my lesson and will never love like this again.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Auko naki mi to wa shirushiru koi su tote nageki koritsumu hito wa yoki ka wa
Knowing you have no pole to carry it, no chance to meet, you love all the same; is one who cuts and stacks up grief like firewood really to be praised?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Asa goto ni tsuyu wa okedomo hito kouru waga koto no ha wa iro mo kawarazu
Every morning the dew settles on the leaves, and yet the leaves of my words, which speak my love for you, never change their color.
Gosen Wakashu - The Priest Kaisen
Machikakute tsuraki o miru wa ukeredomo uki wa mono ka wa koishiki yori wa
It is painful to see your coldness from so near, yet what is that pain worth beside the pain of longing for you from afar?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsukushi naru omoisomegawa watarinaba mizu ya masaran yodomu toki naku
If I cross the Somegawa in Tsukushi, the river of a love just begun, will the waters not rise and rise, without a moment's stillness?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanetada
Watarite wa ada ni naru chō somekawa no kokorozukushi ni nari mo koso sure
They say that once the Somegawa is crossed, the heart grows fickle; I fear it will bring me only the worry that its name of Tsukushi promises.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hanazakari sugushishi hito wa tsurakeredo koto no ha o sae kakushi ya wa sen
The one who let the season of full blossom pass without coming has been cruel; yet should I hide away even my leaves of words from him?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tou koto o matsu ni tsukihi wa koyurugi no iso ni ya idete ima wa uramin
While I waited for you to come, the months and days have passed on beyond Koyurugi; shall I now go out on its rocky shore and gaze across the bay in reproach?
Gosen Wakashu - Ukon
Wasuregusa na o mo yuyushimi kari nite mo ou chō yado wa yukite dani miji
I dread even the name of forgetting-grass, so I would not go, not even in passing to reap it, to look at a house where they say it grows.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Uki koto no shigeki yado ni wa wasuregusa uete dani mishi aki zo wabishiki
At my house, overgrown with sorrows, I even planted forgetting-grass and looked upon it, yet this autumn, when you have tired of me, is dreary still.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kazu shiranu omoi wa kimi ni aru mono o okidokoro naki kokochi koso sure
All my countless longings are given to you, and yet I feel as though there were nowhere I could set them down.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Okidokoro naki omoi to shi kikitsureba ware ni ikura mo araji to zo omou
Since I hear these are longings with no place to set them down, I think there can be very few of them meant for me.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Waga tachite kiru koso ukere natsugoromo ōkata to nomi mibeki ususa o
It pains me that you should wear this summer robe I cut and sewed myself, for you will surely see its thinness as nothing out of the ordinary.
Gosen Wakashu - Daughter of Prince Koretada
Yaemugura sashiteshi kado o imasara ni nani ni kuyashiku akete machiken
Why, after all this time, did I open the gate that the tangled weeds had long since shut, only to wait there to my bitter regret?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Saoshika no tsuma naki koi o takasago no onoe no komatsu kiki mo irenan
Little pine on the peak of Takasago, will you not at least take to heart the love-cry of a stag that has no mate?
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Moroakira