Springs.
いかなればななくりの湯のわくがごといづる泉の涼しかるらむ
ika nareba nanakuri no yu no waku ga goto izuru izumi no suzushikaruramu For some reason
Mototoshi
In place of a man who was in love with someone of much higher status.
つきもせずこひになみだをわかすかなこやななくりのいでゆなるらん
tuki mo sezu Being inexhaustibly
Sagami
Confused thoughts.
あひおもはぬ人をおもふぞやまひなるなにかありまのゆへも行くべき
aiomowanu hito o omou zo yamai naru nanika arima no yu e mo yukubeki She loves me not, yet
Attributed to Okikaze
When Minamoto no Sane left her, saying that he was going to take a hot spring cure in Tsukushi, she composed this at Yamazaki, regretting their parting.
いのちだに心にかなふ物ならばなにか別のかなしからまし
inoti wo dani If life at least
Shirome
左桧隈 <桧隈>河尓 駐馬 馬尓水令飲 吾外将見
さ桧隈桧隈川に馬留め馬に水飼へ我れ外に見む
sapinokuma In Sahinokuma
Love on seeing again.
思ひのみしるべとならばたのめただ哀あやなきけふのながめも
omoi nomi If my passion alone
Love on seeing again.
忘られぬ思ひはさしも浅からで浅かの沼の草の名もうし
wasurarenu I cannot forget
Emperor Gomizunō
Love on seeing again.
あさき江にかつ見る花の貌鳥もうき太山木にかげなならべそ
asakie ni In a shallow inlet
Love on seeing again.
あまのすむうらみもなれぬ衣でのやがて見るめになにしほるらむ
ama no sumu Fisherfolk dwell
Love on seeing again.
見ずもあらず見もせぬ人につげやらんしるべもたのむわがおもひぞと
mizu mo arazu Not unseen,
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