From a hundred-poem sequence.
はかなくてすぎにしかたをかぞふれば花にものおもふ春ぞへにける
| hakanakute suginishi kata o kazoureba hana ni mono’omou haru zo henikeri |
At a loss, To times gone past My thoughts return; Gloomily on blossoms have I thought, This spring gone by. |
Princess Shokushi
式子内親王