Kinkai wakashū 530

ほととぎすまつよながらのさみだれにしげきあやめのねにぞ鳴きぬる

hototogisu
matsu yo nagara no
samidare ni
shigeki ayame no
ne ni zo nakunaru

While the cuckoo
I await one night
In a summer shower,
Lush as sweet-flag
Roots grow my sobbing cries!

530

Waka Poetry