Takuboku Ishikawa

"Like to a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day."

"With the troubled eyes of a youth I envied Birds flying— Flying they sang."

"Kyoshitsu no Mado yori nigete Tada hitori Kano shiro-ato ni Ne ni yukishi ka na"

"たはむれに母を背負ひて そのあまり軽きに泣きて 三歩あゆまず"

"Ishikawa was a poet of great ability who wanted to develop critical 'realism', but dealt too 'emotively' with human suffering and was isolated from the mainstream of socialist activity. He was passionately in sympathy with the latter, but is marked down as a 'romantic'."