Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
When I left my girl
In her
grave on
Mount Hikite
And walked down the mountain path,
I felt as though I were dead.
Fusuma ji wo
Hikite no yama ni
Imo wo okite
Yama ji wo yukeba
Ikeri to mo nashi
- translated by Kenneth Rexroth
from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese