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Matsuo Bashō was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

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List of poems by Matsuo Basho 111 total

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The old pond
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Autumn moonlight
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A Ball of Snow
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The oak tree
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Basho's Death Poem
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From time to time
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The passing spring
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I'm a wanderer
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Haiku
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A snowy morning
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In this world of ours,
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Winter solitude
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a strange flower
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Collection of Six Haiku
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The clouds come and go
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A cicada shell
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Won't you come and see
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A wild sea
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A caterpillar
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Four Haiku
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Winter garden
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A field of cotton
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Fleas, lice
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the whole family
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How admirable
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Teeth sensitive to the sand
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The banana tree
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First day of spring
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This old village
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Eaten alive
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Heat waves shimmering
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The winter storm
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Flower
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Don't imitate me
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Wrapping the rice cakes
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Midfield
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A bee
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Chilling autumn rains
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A monk sips morning tea
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An Old Pond
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The morning glories
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Passing through the world
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Prologue
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The she cat
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The butterfly
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The morning glory also
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I like to wash
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deep into autumn
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Stillness
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This old village
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Ungraciously
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When the winter chrysanthemums go
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On this road
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A weathered skeleton
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A cold rain starting
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Heat waves shimmering
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husking rice
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None is travelling
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under my tree-roof
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How wild the sea is
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With every gust of wind
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Taking a nap
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On New Year's Day
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The first snow
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Even that old horse
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Morning and evening
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What fish feel
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Blowing stones
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The squid seller's call
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Moonlight slanting
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Spring rain
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the winter leeks
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Tremble oh my gravemound
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Coolness of the melons
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souls' festival
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The dragonfly
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First snow
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A cool fall night
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As they begin to rise again
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Clouds
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a cuckoo cries
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With a warbler
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the warbler sings
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First winter rain
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Winter seclusion
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Sleep on horseback
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The petals tremble
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A man infirm
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This first fallen snow
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It is with awe
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Wrapping dumplings
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Awake at night
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Staying at an inn
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Bitter–tasting ice —
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On the cow shed
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Cold as it was
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Bush warbler
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On Buddha's deathday
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On the white poppy
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crossing long fields
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Cold night: the wild duck
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bush-clover flowers
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Untitled
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Scarecrow in the hillock
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Petals of the mountain rose
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Year’s end,
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long conversations
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Winter downpour
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shaking the grave
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The shallows
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But for a woodpecker
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