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Basho

Classic Haiku

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    The autumn gloaming deepens into night;
    Black ’gainst the slowly-fading orange light,
    On withered bough a lonely crow is sitting.

    Trans. by Clara A. Walsh
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    The Ruins of Takadachi Fort

    Ah, summer grasses wave !
    The warriors’ brave deeds were a dream !

    Bash
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    A single match
    Makes darkness flinch.

    By Mannen
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    An Epitaph Upon Himself

    I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;
    Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
    I warmed both hands before the fire of life:
    It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

    By Landor
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    Ah! he is not a common man
    Who turns to a flowerless tree.

    By Onitsura
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    I sit up or lie down and yet,
    How large is the mosquito-net !

    By Ukihashi (a poetess)
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    That rogue called Love having left me,
    How cold snow feels to me!

    By Jakushi
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    How the skylark soars,
    Treading on the cloud,
    Inhaling the haze!

    By Shiki
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    My eyes which had seen all came back,
    Back to the white chrysanthemums.

    By Issh
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    The snow upon my hat
    Feels light, being mine own.

    By Kikaku
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