Monomou to inezu okitaru asake ni wa wabite naku nari niwatsutori sae

物思ふと寐ねず起きたる朝明には
わびて鳴くなり庭つ鳥さへ

Roma-ji: Monomou to inezu okitaru asake ni wa wabite naku nari niwatsutori sae
English Translation: Brooding on my love,
I lay awake all night, and now
at break of dawn
I hear it crying forlornly,
even the barnyard cock
Meaning: At dawn, after a sleepless night of brooding, even the cock in the yard seems to crow forlornly.
Commentary: Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts through Things 3094

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts through Things"
At a dawn reached without sleep, the poet hears even the cock crowing forlornly. The poet's own loneliness is heard reflected in the bird's cry.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.

Line one, "monomou to," means "brooding," read "monomou" in the kana line.
Line two, "inezu okitaru," means "having stayed awake without sleeping."
Line three, "asake ni wa," means "at dawn." The word "asake" also appears in poems 2841 and 3095 in this book.
Line four, "wabite naku nari," means "it is crying forlornly," with "nari" a judgment based on sound.
Line five, "niwatsutori sae," means "even the barnyard cock," the inversion overlaying the poet's loneliness on the cock's crowing.
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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