Yume yori zo koishiki hito o misometsuru ima wa awasuru hito mo aranan - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夢よりぞ恋しき人を見そめつる
今はあはする人もあらなん

Roma-ji: Yume yori zo koishiki hito o misometsuru ima wa awasuru hito mo aranan
English Translation: It was from a dream
that I first came to see her,
the one I long for;
now may someone come to match
the dream, and bring us to meet.
Meaning: It was in a dream that I first saw the one I love; now I wish there were someone to read that dream and bring us together.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 630

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that the poet first saw the one he loves in a dream, and now wishes for someone to read that dream and bring them together. Pivoting "awasuru" on "matching" a dream, that is, interpreting it, and "bringing together" two people, it hopes that a love begun in a dream may lead to a real meeting. Where the preceding poem, 629, lamented that one could not tell who the beloved was even in a dream, this poem wishes to meet the one first seen in a dream.

First line, "yume yori zo," means "from a dream," with "yori" marking the starting point and the binding particle "zo" resolved by "tsuru" in the third line. It shares the word "yume" with the final line of the preceding poem, 629, "yume ni miyu tomo."
Second line, "koishiki hito o," means "the one I long for."
Third line, "misometsuru," means "I first saw and came to love," with "tsuru" the attributive form of the perfective "tsu." The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "ima wa awasuru," is a pivot word: "awasuru" means "matching" a dream, that is, interpreting it, and "bringing together" two people.
Final line, "hito mo aranan," means "may there be someone," with "nan" a final particle expressing a wish directed at another.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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