現には臥せど寝られず起きかへり
昨日の夢をいつか忘れん
昨日の夢をいつか忘れん
- Roma-ji
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Utsutsu ni wa fusedo nerarezu okikaeri kinō no yume o itsuka wasuren
- English Translation
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Here, in waking life,
though I lie down I can't sleep,
and rise up again—
yesterday's sweet dream of you,
when could I forget it
- Meaning
- Awake, though I lie down I cannot sleep, and keep rising up again. How could I ever forget yesterday's meeting, sweet as a dream?
- Commentary
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Book Thirteen Love Poems V 925
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sent in reply to someone who had written with reproaches."
The poet says that in waking life she cannot sleep though she lies down, and keeps rising again, and asks when she could ever forget yesterday's dream-like meeting. Telling him she is too stirred by the memory of their meeting to sleep, she answers the reproachful lover that she will never forget.
According to the headnote, like the preceding poem it replies to someone who had written with reproaches. Where the preceding poem said she never spoke of forgetting, this one adds that she will not forget yesterday's meeting. In speaking of a meeting as a dream, it also echoes 898 in this book.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "Utsutsu ni wa," means "in waking life," paired with "yume," dream, in the last line.
The second line, "fusedo nerarezu," means "though I lie down I cannot sleep."
The third line, "okikaeri," means "rising up again," sitting up again and again, unable to sleep. The poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "kinō no yume o," means "yesterday's dream," the dream-like meeting, set against "utsutsu" in the first line.
The last line, "itsuka wasuren," means "when could I forget? never," with "n," a form of the conjectural "mu," expressing a rhetorical question.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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