In spite of your promising words "sasemo" (the name of a grass) that I had been relying on like a blessing of dewdrops, again my hopes didn't bear fruit this autumn and my life is passing by in vain. ('Senzaishu' (Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years) Miscellaneous, 1023)
ちぎりおきしさせもが露をいのちにてあはれ今年の秋もいぬめり　（「千載集」雑・1023）