In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve^[1] sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure さびしさの うれしくも有 秋の暮 buson 蕪村

In our reading, Yosa Buson's verse has no image and no scene, only a feeling named and then the hour. We take 秋の暮 as dusk: it is the moment when the loneliness one has dreaded comes and turns out to be welcome. Some readers find that plainness its beauty, and some find it a little too plain.

In the Japanese, the whole verse turns on one small word, も, which means too. The gladness sits inside the loneliness, not in place of it. 秋の暮 means autumn dusk and also the end of autumn, and the dictionaries order the two senses differently. The designs write the word ari with the kanji 有, where the printed editions spell it in kana; the word is the same.

References:

[1] After R. H. Blyth, Haiku, vol. 1 (Hokuseido Press, 1949), p. 229.

The verse is Buson's, known from the 蕪村遺稿, the book of his verse published after his death, in 1801; its 1900 edition opens the run of autumn-dusk verses with it. No witness read here dates its composition.