Wasurenan to omou kokoro no yasukaraba tsurenaki hito o uramimashi ya wa - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

忘れなんと思ふ心のやすからば
つれなき人を恨みましやは

Roma-ji: Wasurenan to omou kokoro no yasukaraba tsurenaki hito o uramimashi ya wa
English Translation: If this heart of mine
that thinks, "I will forget,"
could find it easy,
would I ever bear a grudge
against one so cold
Meaning: If my heart, resolving to forget, could do so easily, would I resent someone so cold to me?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems III 780

Headnote: "The man, pained by her coldness, had turned his heart away, and when the woman casually sent word asking why he did not write, he replied:"
The poet says that if the heart that would forget found it easy, he would not resent one so cold. He voices a love he cannot sever: it is because he cannot forget her that he feels such resentment.
According to the headnote, the man had drawn his heart away, hurt by her coldness, when the woman sent a careless note asking why he had not written, and he composed this poem.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. According to the headnote, it is the man's poem.

The first line, "Wasurenan to," means "that I will forget," with "nan" expressing strong intention. The line has an extra syllable.
The second line, "omou kokoro no," means "the heart that thinks."
The third line, "yasukaraba," means "if it were easy," pairing with "mashi" in the last line to express a contrary-to-fact supposition.
The fourth line, "tsurenaki hito o," means "one so cold."
The last line, "uramimashi ya wa," means "would I resent," with "mashi" a contrary-to-fact auxiliary and "ya wa" a rhetorical question. It ends with the same pattern as "kikoemashi ya wa" in the last line of 778 in this book.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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