Composed as a Winter poem.
山里は冬ぞさびしさまさりける人めも草もかれぬと思へば
yamazato Fa Fuyu zo sabisisa Masarikeru Fitome mo kusa mo karenu to omoFeba |
In a mountain home Winter is when loneliness Overwhelms me; The bustle of folk and the grasses, too, Have withered away, I feel. |
Minamoto no Muneyuki (d.939)
This poem is also #28 in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshū compiled by Fujiwara no Teika.