Sent to a lady’s house attached to a frond of fern which had taken on autumn colours.

わが恋もいまは色にやいでなまし軒のしのぶも紅葉しにけり

wa ga koi mo ima wa iro ni ya idenamashi noki no shinobu mo momijishinikeri

Does my love, too, Now with such passionate hues Reveal itself, I wonder? Secretly beneath my eaves the ferns Have turned scarlet.

The Hanazono Minister of the Left