Ai omowazu kimi wa aru rashi nubatama no ime ni mo miezu ukeite nuredo

相思はず君はあるらしぬばたまの
夢にも見えずうけひて寝れど

Roma-ji: Ai omowazu kimi wa aru rashi nubatama no ime ni mo miezu ukeite nuredo
English Translation: You do not love me,
so it seems, my dearest one;
in the jet-black night
you do not come to my dreams,
though I sleep with a pledge and prayer
Meaning: It seems you do not love me as I love you. You do not appear even in my dreams, though I prayed before I slept.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2589

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing One's Feelings Directly"
A woman prayed to the gods that her lover would appear in her dreams, yet he did not, and she laments that he must not love her. Drawing on the ancient belief that a person who thinks of you appears in your dreams, the poem takes his absence from her dreams as proof of a changed heart and conveys the pain of that conclusion.
Following the preceding poem, it again speaks of grief in bed at night, and answering the wish "let her appear to me in dreams" in the poem before that, it gives the outcome that the lover does not appear even when prayed for. Here love poems on sleep and dreams are arranged as a continuous run.
The author is unknown. The anonymous poems of Book Eleven gather love poems by people whose names have not come down to us.

First line, "ai omowazu": "not loving each other." From the opening the poem sets out the grief of one-sided love: she loves him, but he does not love her.
Second line, "kimi wa aru rashi": "you seem to be." "Rashi" is an auxiliary of inference grounded in evidence, here the absence of dreams. The sense breaks after the second line.
Third line, "nubatama no": a pillow word attached to "dream." Nubatama, the black seed of the blackberry lily, leads into words such as black, night and dream.
Fourth line, "ime ni mo miezu": "you do not appear even in dreams." This line gives the grounds for the inference of the first two lines.
Fifth line, "ukeite nuredo": "though I slept after a pledge." Ukei is a kind of divination asking the will of the gods, here a prayer before sleep that the lover appear. The fourth and fifth lines are inverted, deepening the disappointment that he did not appear despite the prayer.
Source: Manyoshu
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