The Regent Fujiwara no Go-Kyōgoku
The cricket cries
In the frost.
On my narrow bed,
In a folded quilt,
I sleep alone.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Kirigirisu
Naku
ya shimo yo no
Sumu shiro ni
Koromo katashiki
Hitori ka mo nemu