Masaoki Shiki Autumn Poems
- 1. Tanka 06
the bucket's water
poured out and gone,
drop by drop
dew drips like pearls
... - 2. Tanka 10
I do not know the day
my pain will end yet
in the little garden
I had them plant
...
Poem of the day
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet.
Let me a little longer hold thy hand.
Too soon it is to bid me to forget
The joys I was so late to understand.
The future holds but a blank face for me,
The past is all confused with tears and grey,
But the sweet present, while thy smiles I see,
Is perfect sunlight, an unclouded day.
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