[One of] three poems composed at a banquet on the 3rd day of the Third Month, with an imperial envoy sent to inspect the border guards and messengers from the Ministry of War in attendance.
朝な朝な上がる雲雀になりてしか都に行きて早帰り来む
| asana asana agaru pibari ni naritesika miyako ni yukite paya kaperikon |
Every single morning Soars the skylark – If only I were she, then To the capital I’d go, and Swiftly return home! |
Abe no Samimaro
安倍沙美麻呂
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時鳥今宵はとまれ片岡の朝の原に帰りやせぬ
| Fototogisu koyoFi Fa tomare katawoka no asita no Fara ni kaFeri ya senu |
O, cuckoo Stay here this night, and Down the hillside With the morning to the plain Will you not return? |
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我が宿に声な惜しみそ時鳥通ふ千里のゆきはてぞ此は
| wa ga yado ni kowe na osimi so Fototogisu kayoFu tisato no yukiFate zo ko Fa |
At my home I regret not your song, O, cuckoo, For your thousand league Journey’s end lies here. |
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朝戸出の君が足結を濡らす露原早く起き出でつつ我れも裳裾濡らさな
| asa tode no kimi ga ayupi wo nurasu tuyu para payaku oki idetutu ware mo mosuso nurasana |
In the morning, opening the door Bound up, your belt Will be drenched by the dewy fields; Swiftly rising I, too, shall venture out and Soak my skirt-hem… |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
Composed on the conception of the moon over the water, at the residence of Supernumerary Middle Councillor Toshitada at Katsura.
あすも来む野路の玉川萩こえて色なる浪に月やどりけり
| asu mo komu nodi no tamakaFa Fagi koete ironaru nami ni tuki yadorikeri |
The morning comes, too, To Noji’s jewelled river; Over-running the bush-clover are Motley waves where The moon does lodge. |
Minamoto no Shunrai
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