Lady Izumi Shikibu You told me it was You told me it was because of me you gazed at the moon. I've come to see if this is true. --from Three Poems on Love Japanese; trans. Willis Barnstone Lady Izumi Shikibu, from "Three Poems on Love," Japanese, trans. Willis Barnstone, A Book of Women Poets, from Antiquity to Now, Willis Barnstone and Aliki Barnstone, eds., 1980, Schocken Books. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
You told me it was
You told me it was because of me you gazed at the moon. I've come to see if this is true. --from Three Poems on Love Japanese; trans. Willis Barnstone
Lady Izumi Shikibu, from "Three Poems on Love," Japanese, trans. Willis Barnstone, A Book of Women Poets, from Antiquity to Now, Willis Barnstone and Aliki Barnstone, eds., 1980, Schocken Books.