Poems by Matsuo Basho
a cuckoo cries
... and through a thicket of bamboo ...
Coolness of the melons
... Translated by Robert Hass ...
Bittertasting ice
... Kori nigaku enso ga nodo o uruoseri ...
The clouds come and go
... providing a rest for all ...
A field of cotton
... had flowered ...
the winter leeks
... Have been washed white -- ...
Four Haiku
... Into the gloom Goes the heron's cry ...
Sleep on horseback
... The far moon in a continuing dream, ...
Don't imitate me
... Translated by Robert Hass ...
Wrapping the rice cakes
... she fingers back her hair ...
Haiku
... on the misty mountain path ...
husking rice
... husking rice a child squints up ...
a strange flower
... for birds and butterflies ...
Years end,
... floating world, swept ...
A wild sea
... A wild sea- In the distance over Sado The Milky Way ...
