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Quotes from Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature — Ono no Komachi

825–900 Japan

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This night of no moon
There is no way to meet him.
I rise in longing—
My breast pounds, a leaping flame,
My heart is consumed in fire.

Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)

So lonely am I
My body is a floating weed
Severed at the roots.
Were there water to entice me,
I would follow it, I think.

Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)

Omoitsutsu
Nureba ya hito no
Mietsuramu
Yume to shiriseba
Samezaramashi wo

Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)

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