HAIKAIS[1]
I
You laughed while I wept,
Yet my tears and your laughter
Had only one source.
II
Yes! I was startled,
For I saw there beside you
Love's apparition!
III
Our lips spoke no word,
Yet we talked long together,
Eye answering eye.
IV
The music fills me
With passionate yearnings—
Where art thou, loved one?
- ↑ "A Haikai is a Japanese form of verse, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, or seventeen syllables in all. Hitherto they have not, we believe, been written in English."—The Academy, April 8, 1899.
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