Matsuo Basho's Poetry, by popularity

• the winter leeks

  The winter leeks
  Have been washed white --

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• On the cow shed

  On the cow shed
  A hard winter rain;

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• Even that old horse

  Even that old horse
  is something to see this

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• With a warbler

  With a warbler for
  a soul, it sleeps peacefully,

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• Flower

  Flower
  under harvest sun - stranger

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• Winter seclusion

  Winter seclusion –
  sitting propped against

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• crossing long fields

  Crossing long fields,
  frozen in its saddle,

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• Sleep on horseback

  Sleep on horseback,
  The far moon in a continuing dream,

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• The shallows

  The shallows –
  a crane’s thighs splashed

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• Eaten alive

  Eaten alive by
  lice and fleas -- now the horse

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• Petals of the mountain rose

  Petals of the mountain rose
  Fall now and then,

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• On New Year's Day

  On New Year's Day
  each thought a loneliness

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• the warbler sings

  the warbler sings
  among new shoots of bamboo

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• souls' festival

  souls' festival
  today also there is smoke

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• Wrapping dumplings

  Wrapping dumplings in
  bamboo leaves, with one finger

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• Morning and evening

  Morning and evening
  Someone waits at Matsushima!

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• On the white poppy

  On the white poppy,
  a butterfly’s torn wing

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• The morning glories

  The morning glories
  bloom, securing the gate

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• Winter downpour

  Winter downpour -
  even the monkey

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• Ungraciously

  Ungraciously, under
  a great soldier's empty helmet,

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• This first fallen snow

  This first fallen snow
  is barely enough to bend

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• Year’s end,

  Year’s end, all
  corners of this

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• The winter storm

  The winter storm
  Hid in the bamboo grove

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• The butterfly

  The butterfly is perfuming
  It's wings in the scent

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• The passing spring

  The passing spring
  Birds mourn,

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• under my tree-roof

  under my tree-roof
  slanting lines of april rain

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• Tremble oh my gravemound

  Tremble, oh my gravemound,
  in time my cries will be

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• The petals tremble

  The petals tremble
  on the yellow mountain rose –

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• I'm a wanderer

  I'm a wanderer
  so let that be my name –

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• How wild the sea is

  How wild the sea is,
  and over Sado Island,

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