I wish I were close
To you as the wet skirt of
A salt girl to her body.
I think of you always.
Akahito
The white chrysanthemum
Is disguised by the first frost.
If I wanted to pick one
I could find it only by chance.
Oshikochi No Mitsune
The deer on pine mountain,
Where there are no falling leaves,
Knows the coming of autumn
# Ōshikōchi no Mitsune 
 A poet and politician of the  Heian  period, an era remembered for its thriving art and literature communities. The poem featured in this text was also anthologized in the famous collection  Ogura Hyakunin Issha . 
 William N. Porter translated the poem as such: 
 IT was a white chrysanthemum I came to take away; But, which are coloured, which are white, I’m half afraid to say,   So thick the frost to-day! 

Poems from the Japanese