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If it be for aye

That he wills our love should last?

Ah! I do not know!

And this morn my anxious thoughts,

Like my black hair, are confused.

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #80 by 待(たい)賢(けん)門(もん)院(いんの)堀(ほり)河(かわ)

Notes on this poem

Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917

---
title: 百人一首 第80番 [長]{なが}からむ
japanese:
- - - pos: adjective
      text:
      - 長: なが
      - から
      dictionary: 長い
    - pos: verb
      text: む
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/む
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 心: こころ
    - pos: particle
      text: も
    - pos: verb
      text:
      - 知: し
      - ら
      dictionary: 知る
    - pos: verb
      text: ず
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 黒: くろ
      - 髪: かみ
      dictionary: 黒髪
    - pos: particle
      text: の
- - - pos: verb
      text:
      - 乱: みだ
      - れ
      dictionary: 乱れる
    - pos: particle
      text: て
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 今朝: けさ
    - pos: particle
      text: は
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 物: もの
    - pos: particle
      text: を
    - pos: particle
      text: こそ
    - pos: verb
      text:
      - 思: おも
      - へ
      dictionary: 思う
image:
  file: card.jpg
  alt: 待賢門院堀河の歌のかるた札
  credit:
    name: Wikimedia Commons
    link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_080.jpg
english:
- If it be for aye
- That he wills our love should last?
- Ah! I do not know!
- And this morn my anxious thoughts,
- Like my black hair, are confused.
translation:
  author: Clay MacCauley
  site:
    name: Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
    link: https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/macauley.html
---

[百]{ひゃく}[人]{にん}[一]{いっ}[首]{しゅ} #80 by [待]{たい}[賢]{けん}[門]{もん}[院]{いんの}[堀]{ほり}[河]{かわ}

[Notes on this poem]https://hyakuninisshu.jp/poem/80/