Kinkai wakashū 514

Composed on the conception of waiting for love.

さむしろにひとりむなしく年もへぬよるの衣のすそあはずして

samushiro ni
hitori munashiku
toshi mo henu
yoru no koromo no
suso awazushite

With a scanty coverlet
Unwillingly alone
Through the passing years
With night-robes’
Hems never meeting…

514

Waka Poetry