思ひやる方も知られず苦しきは
心まどひの常にやあるらむ
心まどひの常にやあるらむ
- Roma-ji
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Omoiyaru kata mo shirarezu kurushiki wa kokoromadoi no tsune ni ya aruramu
- English Translation
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That I find no way
to ease the thoughts that fill me,
and suffer so—
is this, I wonder, the way
of a heart that has lost its way
- Meaning
- That I can find no way to ease my thoughts and suffer so—is this simply the way of a heart gone astray?
- Commentary
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Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems IV 1286
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet asks whether suffering with no way to ease one's thoughts is simply the way of a heart in confusion. Torn by love and unable to dispel it, the poet laments that such must be the nature of a troubled heart.
The poet is anonymous and the name is not known.
The first line, "Omoiyaru," means "to ease my thoughts."
The second line, "kata mo shirarezu," means "knowing no way," with "re" potential.
The third line, "kurushiki wa," means "that I suffer so."
The fourth line, "kokoromadoi no," means "of a heart in confusion."
The last line, "tsune ni ya aruramu," means "is this its way, I wonder," with the interrogative binding particle "ya" closed by the attributive "ramu." It ends in the same form as "tsuyu ni ya aruran" in the last line of 1284 of this book.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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