Kini
singer · Hawaii · 19th century
The maker of a song of longing for Princess Harriet Nahienaena (1815–1836), whom the song calls "my friend", after she had gone away. Nothing but the name is recorded.
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1830s · One passage of a long song. It goes on to say that she wept all the way to the shore and watched the ship sail on. No date is given. The princess died in 1836. The English is the translation printed beside the Hawaiian in the same book (edited by Thomas G. Thrum).
At your departure my love waxed great. How oblivious was I when we dwelt together, But when thou hadst gone away my love for thee welled within.
Hoi aku oe, nui loa ku’u aloha, I palaka no ka i ka noho pu, I hoi aku ka hana aloha a’u ia oe
"A Farewell to Harriet Nahienaena (He aloha no Harieta Nahienaena)", lines 46–48 · Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, Third Series (1919–1920)
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