Wabitsutsu mo kinō bakari wa sugushiteki kyō ya waga mi no kagiri naruran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

わびつつも昨日ばかりは過ぐしてき
今日や我が身の限りなるらん

Roma-ji: Wabitsutsu mo kinō bakari wa sugushiteki kyō ya waga mi no kagiri naruran
English Translation: Though I pined and grieved,
up until yesterday
I got through somehow;
will today then be the day
that brings my life to its end?
Meaning: Pining as I was, I managed somehow to live through yesterday; will today be the end of my life?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 694

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that pining as he was, the poet managed somehow to get through yesterday, but wonders whether today will be the end of his life. It expresses, through the contrast of yesterday and today, the urgent sense of having reached the limit of days endured in love's suffering. It leads into the next poems, 695 and 696, on today and tomorrow, so that poems of love getting through each day in turn stand together.

First line, "wabitsutsu mo," means "pining as I was," with "tsutsu" expressing continuation.
Second line, "kinō bakari wa," means "up until yesterday, somehow."
Third line, "sugushiteki," means "I got through," with "te" the continuative form of the perfective "tsu" and "ki" a past auxiliary. The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "kyō ya waga mi no," means "today, of my life," with the binding particle "ya" interrogative and resolved by "ran" in the final line. It shares the word "kyō" with the second line of the next poem, 695, "kyō wa kurashitsu."
Final line, "kagiri naruran," means "will it be the end," using the same word "kagiri" as the second line of 642, "inochi wa kagiri."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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