Love
Short Stanza L: Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1900) · From Short Stanzas
Love
Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul
Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road.
Oh! that some friendly hand would find a pole
To ease my shoulders of their grievous load!
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza L: Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/91/.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza L: Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/91/.
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