Kari no kuru mine no asagiri harezu nomi omoi tsukisenu yo no naka no usa - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

雁の来る峰の朝霧晴れずのみ
思ひ尽きせぬ世の中の憂さ

Roma-ji: Kari no kuru mine no asagiri harezu nomi omoi tsukisenu yo no naka no usa
English Translation: Where the wild geese come,
the morning mist on the peak
never seems to clear;
endless is the brooding of
the sorrows of this world.
Meaning: Like the morning mist on the peak where the wild geese arrive, which never lifts, my heart never clears; there is no end to my brooding over the sorrows of this world.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems II 935

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The morning mist that never lifts from the peak where the wild geese arrive in autumn becomes an image for a gloom that never clears. The scene in the upper verse leads into the feeling of the lower verse, lamenting that the sorrows of the world never end.
The poem closes on a noun, "the sorrows of this world," naming clearly what it grieves over.
The author is recorded as anonymous, and the name has not come down to us.

The first line, "where the wild geese come," refers to geese flying in from the north in autumn, adding a lonely seasonal note.
The second line, "the morning mist on the peak," together with the first line forms a preface leading to "never clears" in the third.
The third line, "never seems to clear," overlaps the mist that will not lift with a heart that cannot brighten. Nomi intensifies the sense of "only, always."
The fourth line, "endless is the brooding," modifies the "sorrows" of the last line.
The last line, "the sorrows of this world," ends on a noun, stating the object of grief and taking up the theme of "the world" from the opening poem.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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