Tare kikitsu koyu nakiwataru karigane no tsuma yobu koe no tomoshiku mo aru ka

誰れ聞きつこゆ鳴き渡る雁がねの
妻呼ぶ声の羨しくもあるか

Roma-ji: Tare kikitsu koyu nakiwataru karigane no tsuma yobu koe no tomoshiku mo aru ka
English Translation: Did anyone hear?
Crossing over here in song,
the cries of the geese,
their voices calling to their mates:
oh, how I envy them
Meaning: Did anyone hear it? The wild geese crossing over here, calling for their mates: how I envy their voices.
Commentary: Book Eight Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 1562

Headnote: "A poem on the wild geese by Kamnagi no Aso no Otome"
Asking whether anyone heard the geese crossing overhead calling for their mates, the poet sings that she envies their voices. In her envy of geese who can call to their partners, the loneliness of being unable to meet the one she loves seeps through. The next poem is Ōtomo no Yakamochi's reply.
The author, Kamnagi no Aso no Otome, was a woman who exchanged poems with Ōtomo no Yakamochi; little else is known of her.

The first line asks "who heard it?" and the poem pauses here.
The second line means "crossing over here, singing."
The third line names the cry of the geese, or the geese themselves.
The fourth line means "the voices calling their mates." It uses the same words as the deer's "voice calling its mate" in the preceding 1561, so the deer of the mountains and the geese of the sky form a pair.
The final line closes with the exclamatory "ka": how enviable. It also echoes "how I envy hearing it" at the end of the preceding poem.
Author: Kamunagibe no Maso no Otome
Source: Manyoshu
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