Tsune yori mo okiukaritsuru akatsuki wa tsuyu sae kakaru mono ni zo arikeru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

常よりも起き憂かりつる暁は
露さへかかるものにぞありける

Roma-ji: Tsune yori mo okiukaritsuru akatsuki wa tsuyu sae kakaru mono ni zo arikeru
English Translation: More than any time,
it was hard to rise and leave
at the break of dawn—
then even the dew, I found,
came falling upon my sleeves
Meaning: This dawn, when it was harder than ever to rise and leave you, I found that even the dew came falling on my sleeves along with my tears.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems V 913

Headnote: "Sent the next morning after he first visited a woman."
The poet says that on this dawn, when it was harder than ever to rise, even the dew came falling on his sleeves. He expresses the pain of parting on the morning after their first night by saying that dew joined his tears to wet his sleeves.
According to the headnote, it is a morning-after poem sent the day after he first visited a woman. The next poem, 914, also speaks of rising at dawn to part, so dawn poems follow one another. The last line closes on "mono ni zo arikeru," as does 899 in this book.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tsune yori mo," means "more than usual."
The second line, "okiukaritsuru," means "it was hard to rise," the pain of leaving to go home.
The third line, "akatsuki wa," means "at the dark hour before dawn," when a man left a woman's house.
The fourth line, "tsuyu sae kakaru," means "even dew falls on them," with "sae" an adverbial particle of addition, the dew joining his tears.
The last line, "mono ni zo arikeru," means "so it has been," with "zo" an emphatic binding particle closed by the attributive "keru."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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