A Poem by Ise no Taifu (Early 11th century)

“The Nodding Renealmia” by Robert John Thornton from Temple of Flora (1807)

Peering hour after sleepless hour
into the dark, my vacant gaze fixes
on the dew scattered
atop the bush clover
by the autumn night’s wind

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