Tomo ni koso hana o mo mime to matsu hito no konu mono yue ni oshiki haru kana - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

ともにこそ花をも見めと待つ人の
来ぬものゆゑに惜しき春かな

Roma-ji: Tomo ni koso hana o mo mime to matsu hito no konu mono yue ni oshiki haru kana
English Translation: "Together, surely,
we shall look upon the flowers"—
the one I waited for
has not come, and so how much
I regret this passing spring
Meaning: I waited, thinking we would surely see the flowers together, but you did not come—and so how I regret this passing spring.
Commentary: Book Three Spring Poems III 138

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "To a place where he had always come visiting, he was prevented by circumstances and had not come for a long time, and the year turned; on the last day of the Third Month the following spring, this was sent."
Because the one he waited for to view the flowers together did not come, the poet regrets spring all the more. He conveys, with a touch of reproach, the loneliness of spring ending before their promise to see the flowers together could be kept.
137 and 138 were sent by Fujiwara no Masatada to Ki no Tsurayuki, and 139 and 140 are Tsurayuki's replies.
The poet, Fujiwara no Masatada, was a son of Fujiwara no Kanesuke and served as governor of Suō among other posts. He was the grandfather of Murasaki Shikibu.

In the first line, "koso" forms a kakarimusubi pattern with the perfective "me" in the second line, stressing "together."
In the second line, "me" is the perfective of the volitional "mu": "that we would see the flowers."
The third line, "matsu hito no," refers to the one he waited for, Ki no Tsurayuki.
In the fourth line, "mono yue ni" gives a reason: "since he does not come."
The last line, "oshiki haru kana," is the same as the last lines of 84 and of the closing poem, 146.
Author: Fujiwara no Masatada
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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