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Ono no Komachi on Valentine's Day

825–900 Japan

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The flowers and my love
Passed away under the rain,
While I idly looked upon them
Where is my yester-love?

Yone Noguchi's The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914)

Although I come to you constantly
over the roads of dreams,
those nights of love
are not worth one waking touch of you.

Women Poets of Japan (1982)

Following the roads
Of dream to you, my feet
Never rest. But one glimpse of you
In reality would be
Worth all these many nights of love.

One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976)

Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.

Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ono no Komachi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.