six poems from the second 50 poems of ‘100 Poems By The Japanese’
100 Poems By The Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
70:
All during a night
Of anxiety I wait.
At last the dawn comes
Through the cracks of the shutters,
Heartless as night.
by The Monk Shun-E
76:
Since I left her,
Frigid as the setting moon,
There is nothing I loathe
As much as the light
Of the dawn on the clouds.
by Mibu No Tadamine
83:
The wind has stopped
The current of the mountain stream
With only a windrow
Of red maple leaves.
by Harumichi No Tsuraki
84:
Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow,
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten.
by Ki No Tsurayki
86:
Like a wave crest
Escaped and frozen,
One white egret
Guards the harbor mouth.
by The Emperor Uda
90:
The cry of the stag
Is so loud in the empty
Mountains that an echo
Answers him as though
It were a doe.
by Yakamochi
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