On the topic of the whiteness of frost at dawn.
霜かとてをきてみつれば月影にみてまがはせる朝ぼらけかな
simo ka tote
wokite mitureba
tukikage ni
mite magaFaseru
asaborake kana |
‘Is it frost?’ I wondered and,
Arising, looked
Upon the moonlight,
But was mistaken,
On such a dawning. |
To the same lady, when, yet again, I could not meet her.
ながむるを頼むものにて明かしてきたゞかたぶきしの月の影見て
nagamuru wo
tanomu mono nite
akasiteki
tada katabukisi no
tuki no kage mite |
That you, too, gaze
I trust, and now
The night is lightening, with
Only the waning
Moonlight for company. |
'Simply moving and elegant'