| 和 歌 | 口語訳 | サイデンステッカーさんの英訳 | |
| 1 | 限りとてわかるる道のかなしきにいかまほしきは命なりけり |  |
I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other. |
| 2 | 宮城野の露吹き結ぶ風の音に小萩が本を思ひこそやれ | |
At the sound of the wind, bringing dews to Miyagi Plain, I think of the tender hagi* upon the moor. |
| 3 | 鈴虫の声の限りを尽くしても長き夜あかずふる涙かな | |
The autumn night is too short to contain my tears Though songs of bell cricket weary, fall into silence. |
| 4 | いとゞしく虫の音しげき浅茅生に露をき添ふる雲の上人 | |
Sad are the insect songs among the reeds. More sadly yet falls the dew from above the clouds. |
| 5 | 荒き風ふせぎし陰の枯しより小萩がうへぞ静心なき | |
The tree that gave them shelter has withered and died. One fears for the plight of the hagi shoots beneath. |
| 6 | 尋ねゆくまぼろしもがなつてにても玉のありかをそこと知るべく | |
And will no wizard search her out for me, That even he may tell me where she is? |
| 7 | 雲のうへも涙に暮るる秋の月いかで住らむ浅茅生の宿 | |
Tears dim the moon, even here above the clouds. Dim must it be in that lodging among the reeds. |
| 8 | いときなき初元結ひに長き世を契る心は結びこめつや | |
The boyish locks are now bound up, a man's. And do we tie a lasting bond for his future? |
| 9 | 結びつる心も深き元結ひに濃き紫の色しあせずは | |
Fast the knot which the honest heart has tied. May lavender, the hue of the troth, be as fast. |