Ishikawa Takuboku 石川啄木

c. 1911 · Meiji Japan

The connecting tram had stopped running, halfway home, and I thought I might cry. It was raining, too.

途中にて乗換の電車なくなりしに、泣かうかと思ひき。雨も降りてゐき。

Tanka collection Sad Toys (Kanashiki gangu)

In the same thread

late 1st century BC · Rome

My hateful birthday is here, to be spent in gloom in the tiresome country, and without Cerinthus. What is sweeter than the city?

Inuisus natalis adest, qui rure molesto et sine Cerintho tristis agendus erit. Dulcius urbe quid est?

Tibullus, book 3, poem 14 (a poem of Sulpicia)

c. 810 · Tang China

In Chang'an there is a young man. At twenty his heart has already rotted.

長安有男兒，二十心已朽。

"For Chen Shang," in the Complete Tang Poems

c. AD 86 · Roman Empire

I do not like you, Sabidius, and I cannot say why. This is all I can say: I do not like you.

Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare: hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

Epigrams 1.32