No wind at all.
Only light to clear away
clouds from the moon…
Inawashiro Kensai
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hokku in Kyoto
Day will dawn.
And shall I ever see again
such an autumn moon?
Sōgi
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haiku
The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
Ryōkan
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moon
Stars around the beautiful moon
conceal their luminous form
when in her fullness she shines
on the earth…
Sappho
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the moon
The moon arises, friend of waterlilies
and bringer of sleep to the lotus grove,
fondling as it were the nymphs of the directions
with his rays as fair as saffron.
Grieve not, oh earth; the darkness will not last.
Be happy, lily pond; do not despair…
The moon now rises, a lamp to all the world,
sole mountain from which flow
all streams of moonlight nectar.
Rajasri
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summer afternoon
Seeing delightful things, hearing sweet sounds,
since a man becomes sad even though they please him:
Surely, he remembers in his heart something he is yet
unaware of,
– friendships in another life, whose emotion is constant.
See, shy one, the Sun
hanging in the West has made
With his long image in the water of the lake
a causeway as of gold.
The Moon, combing the darkness with his beams,
as if with his fingers the massy hair of night,
Seems to kiss her face
whose eyes – the lotuses – have closed into their buds…
Kalidasa
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extracted by the gods
As the king was drinking in the dear face of his son,
his eye motionless as a lotus in the calm;
His intense delight could not be contained within
himself,
like the high tide of the great ocean after seeing the
Moon…
Kalidasa
