From a hundred-poem sequence.
花はちりその色となくながむればむなしきそらに春雨ぞふる
| hana wa chiri sono iro to naku nagamureba munashiki sora ni harusame zo furu |
The flowers have fallen, With not even their colours On which to rest my gaze, as From the empty skies Spring rains fall. |
Princess Shokushi
式子内親王