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January 8, 2022

[The faint shadow of the morning moon?]

Yone Noguchi

The faint shadow of the morning moon?
Nay, the snow falling on the earth.
The mist of blossoming flowers?
Nay, poetry smiling up the sky.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on January 8, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“[The faint shadow of the morning moon?]” appeared in Japanese Hokkus (The Four Seas Company, 1920).

Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English, was born in 1875 in Tsushima. He is the author of Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (The Four Seas Company, 1921). A cross-cultural and transnational writer, Noguchi died in Toyooka-mura on July 13, 1947.

Japanese Hokkus
(The Four Seas Company, 1920)

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