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Eifuku Mon'in 永福門院. "From the 1st Book of Love. Poem 979.." Global Medieval Sourcebook.

Text based on 国歌大観 : 五句索引歌集部 (Kokka taikan: goku sakuin); Kyōbunsha; Date published: 1918 .

戀歌一、９７９ | From the 1st Book of Love. Poem 979.

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戀歌一、９７９ | From the 1st Book of Love. Poem 979.

by Eifuku Mon'in 永福門院

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国歌大観 : 五句索引歌集部 (Kokka taikan: goku sakuin); Kyōbunsha; Date published: 1918

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Transcription

戀の心を On the topic of love.

さても我が思ふ思よ遂にいかに何のかひなき詠のみして Well, well, here I am,

so many feelings I feel!

What will become of them,

with this good-for-nothing

gaze I keep giving my thoughts?

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