Japanese Love Poetry

Anonymous Japanese Poem

( 10th century )

Early morning glows

in the faint shimmer

of first light.

Choked with sadness,

I help you into your clothes.

Shall we stay in the
House to make love, when over
The grasses of Inami Moor
There glows the moonfilled night?

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