Urasaburu kokoro samaneshi hisakata no ame no shigure no nagarau mireba

うらさぶる心さまねしひさかたの
天のしぐれの流らふ見れば

Roma-ji: Urasaburu kokoro samaneshi hisakata no ame no shigure no nagarau mireba
English Translation: How the lonely thoughts
crowd upon my heart in waves,
as I watch the rain—
cold showers from the far-off
heavens streaming endlessly.
Meaning: Lonely thoughts crowd in upon my heart as I watch the cold showers streaming endlessly down from the sky.
Commentary: Book One Miscellaneous Poems 82

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "A poem composed at the sacred well of Yamanobe when Prince Nagata was dispatched to the Ise Shrine Palace in the fourth month of summer, in the fifth year of Wadō, mizunoe-ne"
Watching the cold showers stream endlessly from the sky, the poet feels lonely thoughts welling up in his heart. Overlaying the loneliness of travel on the falling rain, it carries a quiet melancholy. The left note doubts that this and the next poem were composed at the well, suspecting they were old poems recited at the time. Since the fourth month of the headnote does not match the season of early-winter showers, the prevailing view is that an older poem was recited.
Prince Nagata was a member of the imperial family in the early Nara period whose lineage is unclear. He served as governor of Ōmi and captain of the Palace Gate Guards, among other posts, and died in 737, the ninth year of Tenpyō. If, as the left note suspects, he was reciting an older poem, the poem is not his own composition.

In the first line, ura means heart and sabu to grow lonely: "a heart grown desolate." It is the same word as urasabite in poem 33 of this book, both expressing desolation of the heart.
In the second line, samaneshi means many or frequent: "lonely thoughts crowd in." The poem breaks here, inverted with the last line.
The third line, hisakata no, is a pillow word for "heaven," "moon," "sky," and the like.
The fourth line, "the showers of the sky," refers to shigure, intermittent rain of late autumn and early winter.
In the last line, nagarau means to flow on: "as I watch them fall and fall." It is the same word as nagarauru in the first line of poem 59 in this book, expressing unceasing motion. Through inversion it gives the cause of loneliness at the end.
Author: Prince Nagata (possibly reciting an older poem)
Source: Manyoshu
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