Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan/Akiko Yosano
Akiko Yosano
1
Not knowing love,I sought beauty in God.Now I see the beauty of heavenAnd the beauty of earthIn you.
2
As I behold the rainbowIt seems that I look uponThings I have lostOr things I could not get.
3
Goodbye, then,If you will go.Your youth will be spent alone,In a cold, rocky place,And you will remember with sadnessThe sunshine of spring.
4
After our partingI had not walked thirty stepsAlong the meadow pathUntil the autumn flowersBegan to resemble your face,Which I shall never see again.